Introducing positive media psychology to the field of children, adolescents, and media

Leeuw, Rebecca N. H. de; Buijzen, Moniek

doi:10.1080/17482798.2015.1121892

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“…Research on effects of digital entertainment on adolescents in mixed. Previous researchers have criticized the use of digital entertainment for adolescents; however, positive psychology researchers have focused on the beneficial effects of digital entertainment (e.g., exposure to programs depicting positive behaviors) on adolescents (De Leeuw & Buijzen, 2016). Similarly, owning pets is beneficial for wellbeing of adolescents (Purewal et al, 2017).…”

Section: How Do Adolescents' Perceptions Of Pathways To Wellbeing Correspond With Current Research and Academic Models?mentioning

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A prototype analysis of New Zealand adolescents’ conceptualizations of wellbeing

Bharara¹,

Duncan²,

Jarden³

et al. 2019

Intnl. J. Wellbeing

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This research investigated New Zealand adolescents' (aged 11 to 13, N = 361) perceptions of wellbeing from a prototype perspective. Specifically, three studies examined what constitutes and promotes wellbeing, whether adolescents' perspectives are aligned with adults' conceptualizations and academic models of wellbeing, whether socioeconomic status influences adolescents' conceptualization, and whether wellbeing is prototypically organized. Results showed that wellbeing is prototypically organized as some components are more central to the concept of wellbeing and others more peripheral. Contrary to lay adults' conceptualizations and popular wellbeing models, adolescents consider enjoyment/having fun, feeling safe, and being kind/helpful as central components of wellbeing, and sense of satisfaction as a peripheral component of wellbeing. Furthermore, low socio-economic status adolescents consider comfort/being wealthy, being focused, good physical health, good values, and success/achievements as more central for wellbeing than highsocioeconomic status adolescents. Consistent with the current literature, positive family relationships, positive friendships, and physical activity/sport were the most frequently reported pathways to wellbeing among adolescents. Overall, researchers and practitioners should consider adolescents' understanding of wellbeing in the development of wellbeing assessments and interventions.

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Section: How Do Adolescents' Perceptions Of Pathways To Wellbeing Correspond With Current Research and Academic Models?mentioning

confidence: 99%

A prototype analysis of New Zealand adolescents’ conceptualizations of wellbeing

Bharara¹,

Duncan²,

Jarden³

et al. 2019

Intnl. J. Wellbeing

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“…To identify these conditions, we apply a salutogenic approach that proposes boundary conditions for human thriving, rather than suffering (Antonovsky, 1987). Following recent developments introducing positive psychology into communication research (e.g., Leeuw & Buijzen, 2016;Raney et al, 2021), this offers an alternative to previous deterministic approaches, which often conceptualized (mobile) media use as a stressor that, by definition, should negatively impact well-being (e.g., . Whereas a pathogenic perspective understands the human system as well functioning unless it is confronted with inherently negative stressors, a salutogenic perspective assumes that environmental demands are omnipresent and inevitable in the human condition; in fact, they are necessary for personal growth.…”

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How and when do mobile media demands impact well-being? Explicating the integrative model of mobile media use and need experiences (IM3UNE)

Schneider¹,

Lutz²,

Halfmann³

et al. 2021

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Using mobile media can be both detrimental and beneficial for well-being. Thus, explaining how and when they elicit such effects is of crucial importance. To explicate boundary conditions and processes for digital well-being, this article introduces the Integrative Model of Mobile Media Use and Need Experiences (IM³UNE). Instead of assuming mobile media to be pathogenic, the IM³UNE offers a salutogenic perspective—it focuses on how we can stay healthy when using mobile media ubiquitously in daily life. More specifically, the model assumes that both the satisfaction and the frustration of basic psychological needs are key underlying mechanisms linking demanding mobile media use to well-being. However, the impact of these mechanisms is contingent on how users perceive, appraise, act on, and make sense of mobile media demands according to their global orientation to life (i.e., their sense of coherence; SOC). Integrating prior work, we theoretically link mindfulness, self-control, and meaningfulness to SOC’s central facets, arguing that they represent crucial personal resources required to cope with mobile media demands. Thus, the IM³UNE offers an integrative framework, guiding further research towards a more nuanced, less technologically deterministic study of mobile media’s well-being effects.

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“…Recent work has argued that the literature on children’s media effects is unbalanced, with a substantial number of studies examining the negative effects of media exposure; far fewer studies examine the positive, prosocial influences of media on children (see de Leeuw & Buijzen, 2016). This unbalance may have resulted from the amount of violent and otherwise negative portrayals in previous decades’ television programming for children.…”

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Prosocial Television, Preschool Children’s Moral Judgments, and Moral Reasoning: The Role of Social Moral Intuitions and Perspective-Taking

Cingel

Krcmar

2017

Communication Research

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Children’s prosocial television shows include moral lessons in their narratives, but research suggests that children struggle to comprehend and transfer these lessons to other situations. The social intuitionist model of moral judgment, however, argues that dimensions of morality can be made more salient through environmental exposure. Using data collected from 101 parent-child dyads (children ages 4.5-6.5), we explore if children’s existing moral intuitions about fairness and care may be made salient following exposure to moral lessons in a children’s television show, and if parent presence and mediation aid this process. Results demonstrate that, compared with children in the control group, children who viewed the moral message either alone or with a parent experienced improvements in perspective-taking, which in turn influenced their moral judgments and moral reasoning. Thus, children’s morality can be positively influenced by prosocial television exposure via promoting perspective-taking, fairness, and care.

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Introducing positive media psychology to the field of children, adolescents, and media

Cited by 35 publications

References 30 publications

A prototype analysis of New Zealand adolescents’ conceptualizations of wellbeing

A prototype analysis of New Zealand adolescents’ conceptualizations of wellbeing

How and when do mobile media demands impact well-being? Explicating the integrative model of mobile media use and need experiences (IM3UNE)

Prosocial Television, Preschool Children’s Moral Judgments, and Moral Reasoning: The Role of Social Moral Intuitions and Perspective-Taking

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