Mental health: Consuming traditional media has little impact on well-being
Scientific Reports reports the findings that consuming traditional media (books, music, television, etc.) has little effect on adult short-term well-being. ..
It is often thought that using traditional media improves well-being, but using newer types of media, such as social media, reduces well-being.However, there is insufficient evidence that consumption of traditional media enhances well-being.
This time, the research team of Niklas Johannes and colleagues has been working on media consumption by adults (19 people) living in the UK from April to May 2020, when the new coronavirus infection (COVID-4) pandemic (global epidemic) occurred. We conducted a study on the level of habits and happiness.This study used data collected from a survey using representative samples from the United Kingdom. A weekly survey was conducted over a six-week period, with participants watching music, television, movies, video games, books, magazines, and audiobooks the week before the survey, as well as the well-being of the day before the survey. Reported anxiety.
In this study, those who consumed books, magazines or audiobooks showed the same level of happiness and anxiety as those who did not, while those who watched music, television, movies and video games did. It was revealed that those who did not consume tended to have lower happiness and higher anxiety.However, the difference between the two was small, and no causal relationship was observed.Those with low happiness and high anxiety were more likely to watch music, television, movies, and video games, and less likely to watch books, magazines, and audiobooks.It was observed that there was a difference in happiness depending on the form of media used, but a large change in anxiety or happiness is predicted from the difference in the type of media consumed by the participants and the difference in viewing time of conventional media. I couldn't.Taken together, the above findings suggest that the overall impact of consuming traditional media on short-term well-being is negligible.
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