Media for Coping During COVID-19 Social Distancing: Stress, Anxiety, and Psychological Well-Being

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DOI
10.3389/fpsyg.2020.577639
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  • Clarivate Analytics Document Solution ID: PM7NL
  • PubMed Identifier: 33391094
ISSN
1664-1078
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FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
Schlüsselwörter
  • stress
  • anxiety
  • media
  • coping
  • well-being
  • COVID-19
  • students
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ARTN 577639
Datum der Veröffentlichung
2020
Status
Published
Titel
Media for Coping During COVID-19 Social Distancing: Stress, Anxiety, and Psychological Well-Being
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  • Article
Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
11

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Abstract
<jats:p>In spring 2020, COVID-19 and the ensuing social distancing and stay-at-home orders instigated abrupt changes to employment and educational infrastructure, leading to uncertainty, concern, and stress among United States college students. The media consumption patterns of this and other social groups across the globe were affected, with early evidence suggesting viewers were seeking both pandemic-themed media and reassuring, familiar content. A general increase in media consumption, and increased consumption of specific types of content, may have been due to media use for coping strategies. This paper examines the relationship between the stress and anxiety of university students and their strategic use of media for coping during initial social distancing periods in March-April 2020 using data from a cross-sectional survey. We examine links between specific types of media use with psychological well-being concepts, and examine the moderating roles of traits (hope, optimism, and resilience) as buffers against negative relationships between stress and anxiety and psychological well-being. Our findings indicate that stress was linked to more hedonic and less eudaimonic media use, as well as more avoidant and escapist media-based coping. Anxiety, on the other hand, was linked to more media use in general, specifically more eudaimonic media use and a full range of media-based coping strategies. In turn, escapist media was linked to negative affect, while reframing media and eudaimonic media were linked to positive affect. Avoidant coping was tied to poorer mental health, and humor coping was tied to better mental health. Hedonic and need-satisfying media use were linked to more flourishing. Hope, optimism, and resilience were all predictive of media use, with the latter two traits moderating responses to stress and anxiety. The findings give a nuanced portrait of college students’ media use during a pandemic-induced shutdown, showing that media use is closely intertwined with well-being in both adaptive and maladaptive patterns.</jats:p>
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DOI
10.3389/fpsyg.2020.577639
eISSN
1664-1078
Zeitschrift
Frontiers in Psychology
Online publication date
2020
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Published online
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Frontiers Media SA
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.577639
Datum der Datenerfassung
2020
Titel
Media for Coping During COVID-19 Social Distancing: Stress, Anxiety, and Psychological Well-Being
Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
11

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Abstract
In spring 2020, COVID-19 and the ensuing social distancing and stay-at-home orders instigated abrupt changes to employment and educational infrastructure, leading to uncertainty, concern, and stress among United States college students. The media consumption patterns of this and other social groups across the globe were affected, with early evidence suggesting viewers were seeking both pandemic-themed media and reassuring, familiar content. A general increase in media consumption, and increased consumption of specific types of content, may have been due to media use for coping strategies. This paper examines the relationship between the stress and anxiety of university students and their strategic use of media for coping during initial social distancing periods in March-April 2020 using data from a cross-sectional survey. We examine links between specific types of media use with psychological well-being concepts, and examine the moderating roles of traits (hope, optimism, and resilience) as buffers against negative relationships between stress and anxiety and psychological well-being. Our findings indicate that stress was linked to more hedonic and less eudaimonic media use, as well as more avoidant and escapist media-based coping. Anxiety, on the other hand, was linked to more media use in general, specifically more eudaimonic media use and a full range of media-based coping strategies. In turn, escapist media was linked to negative affect, while reframing media and eudaimonic media were linked to positive affect. Avoidant coping was tied to poorer mental health, and humor coping was tied to better mental health. Hedonic and need-satisfying media use were linked to more flourishing. Hope, optimism, and resilience were all predictive of media use, with the latter two traits moderating responses to stress and anxiety. The findings give a nuanced portrait of college students' media use during a pandemic-induced shutdown, showing that media use is closely intertwined with well-being in both adaptive and maladaptive patterns.
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  • Department of Communication, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States.
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DOI
10.3389/fpsyg.2020.577639
eISSN
1664-1078
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  • PubMed Identifier: 33391094
  • PubMed Central ID: PMC7775316
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1664-1078
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Frontiers in psychology
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eng
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2020
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577639
Datum der Veröffentlichung
2020
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Datum der Datenerfassung
2021
Titel
Media for Coping During COVID-19 Social Distancing: Stress, Anxiety, and Psychological Well-Being.
Sub types
  • research-article
  • Journal Article
Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
11

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Abstract
In spring 2020, COVID-19 and the ensuing social distancing and stay-at-home orders instigated abrupt changes to employment and educational infrastructure, leading to uncertainty, concern, and stress among United States college students. The media consumption patterns of this and other social groups across the globe were affected, with early evidence suggesting viewers were seeking both pandemic-themed media and reassuring, familiar content. A general increase in media consumption, and increased consumption of specific types of content, may have been due to media use for coping strategies. This paper examines the relationship between the stress and anxiety of university students and their strategic use of media for coping during initial social distancing periods in March-April 2020 using data from a cross-sectional survey. We examine links between specific types of media use with psychological well-being concepts, and examine the moderating roles of traits (hope, optimism, and resilience) as buffers against negative relationships between stress and anxiety and psychological well-being. Our findings indicate that stress was linked to more hedonic and less eudaimonic media use, as well as more avoidant and escapist media-based coping. Anxiety, on the other hand, was linked to more media use in general, specifically more eudaimonic media use and a full range of media-based coping strategies. In turn, escapist media was linked to negative affect, while reframing media and eudaimonic media were linked to positive affect. Avoidant coping was tied to poorer mental health, and humor coping was tied to better mental health. Hedonic and need-satisfying media use were linked to more flourishing. Hope, optimism, and resilience were all predictive of media use, with the latter two traits moderating responses to stress and anxiety. The findings give a nuanced portrait of college students' media use during a pandemic-induced shutdown, showing that media use is closely intertwined with well-being in both adaptive and maladaptive patterns.
Date of acceptance
2020
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33391094
DOI
10.3389/fpsyg.2020.577639
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  • PubMed Central ID: PMC7775316
ISSN
1664-1078
Zeitschrift
Front Psychol
Schlüsselwörter
  • COVID-19
  • anxiety
  • coping
  • media
  • stress
  • students
  • well-being
Sprache
eng
Country
Switzerland
Paginierung
577639
Datum der Veröffentlichung
2020
Status
Published online
Titel
Media for Coping During COVID-19 Social Distancing: Stress, Anxiety, and Psychological Well-Being.
Sub types
  • Journal Article
Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
11

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