Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, Primary and Community Care, Radboud University and Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
J Youth Adolesc. 2021 Jul;50(7):1424-1436. doi: 10.1007/s10964-021-01408-0. Epub 2021 Feb 20.
Hardly any research has been conducted regarding coping strategies that children can use in response to negative news, although they are frequently exposed to and emotionally affected by such news. Chat conversations with peers about the news could be a coping strategy for children in this regard. To investigate this, children (N = 307; 46.3% girls; M = 10.51; SD = 0.98; range 8-13 years old) participated in a preregistered experiment in which their emotions were measured before and after exposure to a news video on a smartphone and also after a postexposure activity (i.e., chatting about the news as an experimental condition versus chatting about something else or solving a puzzle as control conditions). The results showed that the decrease in negative emotions and the increase in positive emotions were weaker for children who chatted about the news than for those in the control conditions. Thus, seeking social support in online chat conversations did not have the anticipated effect-and might even have an adverse effect.
几乎没有研究关注儿童应对负面新闻的应对策略，尽管他们经常接触到这类新闻，并受到其情绪影响。与同龄人就新闻进行聊天对话可能是儿童在这方面的一种应对策略。为了研究这一点，孩子们（N=307；46.3%为女孩；M=10.51；SD=0.98；年龄范围 8-13 岁）参与了一项预先注册的实验，在智能手机上观看新闻视频前后测量他们的情绪，然后进行一项暴露后活动（即，作为实验条件，就新闻进行聊天，而作为对照条件，进行其他聊天或解决谜题）。结果表明，与控制条件相比，就新闻进行聊天的儿童的负面情绪减少和正面情绪增加较弱。因此，在在线聊天对话中寻求社会支持并没有产生预期的效果，甚至可能产生负面影响。
