Media for Coping During COVID-19 Social Distancing: Stress, Anxiety, and Psychological Well-Being
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- Autoren
- Allison L Eden
- Benjamin K Johnson
- Leonard Reinecke
- Sara M Grady
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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
- Zeitschrift
- FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
- Schlüsselwörter
- stress
- anxiety
- media
- coping
- well-being
- COVID-19
- students
- Artikelnummer
- 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>
- Autoren
- Allison L Eden
- Benjamin K Johnson
- Leonard Reinecke
- Sara M Grady
- DOI
- 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.577639
- eISSN
- 1664-1078
- Zeitschrift
- Frontiers in Psychology
- Online publication date
- 2020
- Status
- 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.
- Addresses
- Department of Communication, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States.
- Autoren
- Allison L Eden
- Benjamin K Johnson
- Leonard Reinecke
- Sara M Grady
- DOI
- 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.577639
- eISSN
- 1664-1078
- Externe Identifier
- PubMed Identifier: 33391094
- PubMed Central ID: PMC7775316
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- ISSN
- 1664-1078
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- Frontiers in psychology
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- eng
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- 2020
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- Open Access
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- 577639
- Datum der Veröffentlichung
- 2020
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- Published
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- CC BY
- 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
- Autoren
- Allison L Eden
- Benjamin K Johnson
- Leonard Reinecke
- Sara M Grady
- Autoren-URL
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33391094
- DOI
- 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.577639
- Externe Identifier
- 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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