The Relation Between Psychological Distress, Television Exposure, and Television-Viewing Motives in Crime Victims

Minnebo, Jurgen

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“…This is partly to be expected; a great many factors likely contribute to interest in particular types of media content. In addition to MS and trust in law enforcement, familiarity with and liking for or loyalty to specific programs, characters, or actors; secondary themes of the programs; and a host of intrapersonal variables likely affect such decisions (see Minnebo, 2006). Nevertheless, although explanatory power was low, it was still significant, indicating that MS plays a small but real role in shaping interest in law and justice programming.…”

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“…People engage in television viewing for a wide variety of motives (e.g., to alleviate boredom or for excitement and entertainment; Rubin, 2002). These motives are, in turn, shaped by both stable psychological traits (e.g., sensation-seeking, neuroticism; Conway & Rubin, 1991) and responses to environmental factors (e.g., the lack of a stimulating environment; Minnebo, 2006). Importantly, Death and Television 341 people are not always aware of the factors that drive their media choices; the theory of affect-dependent stimulus arrangement, or mood management, suggests that media content is sought in order to achieve an optimal mood state.…”

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Death and Television: Terror Management Theory and Themes of Law and Justice on Television

Taylor

2012

Death Studies

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Based on terror management theory, it was hypothesized that media choices may be affected by the salience of death-related thoughts. Three experiments with samples of undergraduate students were conducted to investigate whether such a process would affect preferences for law and justice television programming. In the first experiment (n = 132), individuals for whom mortality had been made salient through experimental induction preferred more programs with law and justice themes than individuals for whom mortality had not been made salient. In the second experiment (n = 761), this effect was observed regardless of trust in law enforcement and only for participants induced to think about death, not those induced to think about pain. In the third experiment (n = 163), participants for whom mortality was salient who watched a crime drama that showed justice being carried out showed a diminished self-enhancing bias compared to participants who watched a version of the same program in which justice was thwarted. Results indicate that entertainment choices are influenced by thought of death beyond simply seeking distraction and that entertainment programming emphasizing justice can effectively ameliorate existential anxiety that arises from thoughts of death.

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Death and Television: Terror Management Theory and Themes of Law and Justice on Television

Taylor

2012

Death Studies

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“…Minnebo (2006) surveyed recent crime victims and found that men experiencing increased psychological distress showed a decreased preference for crime-relevant TV content when asked about hypothetical program preferences, in line with traditional mood management assumptions. However, women showed a mood congruence pattern; women's levels of psychological distress were correlated with an increased preference for viewing crime-relevant TV content.…”

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“…Further, inconsistent patterns have also emerged with regard to gender differences in mood-specific media preferences. Women have been alternately found to ''obey'' the laws of mood management theory to a greater extent than men (Biswas, Riffe, & Zillmann, 1994) and to a lesser extent than men (Minnebo, 2006).…”

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“…Given the inconsistent findings just outlined with regard to whether women in negative mood seek mood-reflecting(Minnebo, 2006) or mood-deflecting(Biswas et al, 1994) media: RQ3: Will gender moderate between mood and media preferences (e.g., will women in a sad mood be more likely to prefer mood-reflecting media than men in a sad mood)?MOOD, GENDER, AND MEDIA PREFERENCES…”

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Of Sad Men and Dark Comedies: Mood and Gender Effects on Entertainment Media Preferences

Greenwood

2010

Mass Communication and Society

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Although traditional mood management theory suggests we use media to deflect sad moods and maintain good moods, various research findings reflect a more complex picture. The present study took a mixed-method, nuanced approach to basic mood management questions and investigated both open and close-ended media preferences among college students (N ¼ 157) immediately following a positive or negative mood induction. Results show that sad (vs. happy) participants showed a preference for viewing a dark comedy or a social drama, whereas happy (vs. sad) participants showed a preference for viewing a slapstick comedy or an action adventure. Women (vs. men) showed an increased preference for romantic genres regardless of mood, whereas men showed a preference for action, suspense, and dark comedy genres. An interaction between gender and mood also emerged; sad men in particular showed a preference for dark comedies. Results are discussed in light of the emotional gratifications that mood-reflecting media may afford men and women.Entertainment media increasingly affords us opportunities to arrange our visual, auditory, and emotional environment in ways that are responsive to particular mood states. Correspondingly, individuals negotiate their

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Cultivation Theory

Bulck¹

2012

The International Encyclopedia of Media Studies

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Cultivation theory was developed by George Gerbner of the Annenberg School for Communication and his colleagues in the late 1960s. The theory argues that by overemphasizing certain aspects of social reality (such as violent crime) and underrepresenting other aspects, television drama affects people's perceptions of reality. Even though it has attracted a lot of criticism, it is one of the three most generative theories in the field of communication research. In recent years much attention has focused on the study of psychological processes. This chapter argues that there are many challenges cultivation theory will face in the coming years. Both the fact that television viewing behavior is changing rapidly and the fact that only small relationships have been found need methodological attention. Developing a sociological theory of the long‐term impact of television stories on culture and socialization may be the way forward.

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The Relation Between Psychological Distress, Television Exposure, and Television-Viewing Motives in Crime Victims

Cited by 7 publications

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Death and Television: Terror Management Theory and Themes of Law and Justice on Television

Death and Television: Terror Management Theory and Themes of Law and Justice on Television

Of Sad Men and Dark Comedies: Mood and Gender Effects on Entertainment Media Preferences

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