Blom Niels, van der Zanden Reneé, Buijzen Moniek, Scheepers Peer
Research Master Social and Cultural Sciences, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Soc Indic Res. 2016;126(3):1317-1342. doi: 10.1007/s11205-015-0933-6. Epub 2015 Mar 25.
This study examined media exposure as an explanatory factor for individual and cross-national differences in self-assessed general health. In studying media exposure, traditional media (television, radio, and newspapers) and contemporary media (internet) were separately considered. Aside from hypotheses about the relation between media exposure and general health, we also tested hypotheses regarding the mediating role of social isolation and mean world syndrome as well as the moderating role of different media systems across countries. Therefore, we used European Social Survey 2010, covering 25 European countries (n = 36,692). The results of our multilevel regression analyses indicated that exposure to television was negatively related to general health, whereas exposure to radio and newspapers were positively related to health. For contemporary media, findings indicated consistent positive relations between internet exposure and health across. Furthermore, limited support was found for the mediating role of social isolation and the mean world syndrome in the link between media exposure and health. Across media systems, findings for the relations between exposure to the various types of media and health proved to be robust.
本研究将媒体接触作为个体及跨国自我评估总体健康差异的一个解释因素进行了考察。在研究媒体接触时，分别考虑了传统媒体（电视、广播和报纸）和当代媒体（互联网）。除了关于媒体接触与总体健康之间关系的假设外，我们还检验了关于社会隔离和平均世界综合征的中介作用以及不同国家媒体系统的调节作用的假设。因此，我们使用了涵盖25个欧洲国家（n = 36,692）的2010年欧洲社会调查。我们的多层回归分析结果表明，电视接触与总体健康呈负相关，而广播和报纸接触与健康呈正相关。对于当代媒体，研究结果表明互联网接触与健康之间始终存在正相关关系。此外，社会隔离和平均世界综合征在媒体接触与健康之间的联系中的中介作用得到的支持有限。在不同媒体系统中，各种媒体接触与健康之间关系的研究结果证明是稳健的。
