School for Mass Communication Research, Faculty of Social Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
School Psychology & Development in Context, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
J Youth Adolesc. 2023 May;52(5):1100-1112. doi: 10.1007/s10964-023-01750-5. Epub 2023 Feb 20.
Trait negative affectivity and trait extraversion/positive affectivity are predictive of both responses to affect and depressive symptoms in adolescence. Furthermore, differences in the use of responses to affect are associated with different levels of depressive symptoms. Despite the central role of media content in adolescents' daily lives, responses to affect have not yet been extended to affect in this media content. It is thus unclear whether trait affectivity is predictive of responses to affective media content, and whether such media response styles are predictive of depressive symptoms. A 3-wave longitudinal panel study with 3-month intervals among 318 adolescents (Mage = 16.5 years, SDage = 1.11, 72.5% boys) investigated the mediating role of media response styles in associations between trait affectivity and depressive symptoms. Trait negative affectivity predicted media rumination and media dampening, yet only media rumination predicted greater levels of depressive symptoms over time. Trait positive affectivity was associated with concurrent media distraction and media-enhancing. The media response styles did not mediate the associations between trait affectivity and depressive symptoms over time. These findings suggest that individuals higher in trait negative affectivity tend to engage in maladaptive emotion regulation strategies during sad media content consumption, whereas adolescents higher in trait positive affectivity turn to more adaptive strategies during sad or happy media content consumption. Yet, media response styles are not robustly associated with depressive symptoms over time.
特质负面情绪和特质外向性/正性情绪均能预测青少年对情绪的反应和抑郁症状。此外，对情绪反应的使用差异与不同水平的抑郁症状相关。尽管媒体内容在青少年日常生活中扮演着核心角色，但对情绪的反应尚未扩展到这种媒体内容中。因此，特质情绪是否能预测对情感媒体内容的反应，以及这种媒体反应方式是否能预测抑郁症状尚不清楚。一项为期 3 个月、有 318 名青少年参与的 3 波纵向面板研究（Mage=16.5 岁，SDage=1.11，72.5%为男生）调查了特质情绪与抑郁症状之间的关系中，媒体反应方式的中介作用。特质负面情绪预测了媒体沉思和媒体抑制，但只有媒体沉思随着时间的推移预测了更高水平的抑郁症状。特质正性情绪与同时的媒体分心和媒体增强有关。媒体反应方式并没有中介特质情绪与抑郁症状之间的关系。这些发现表明，特质负面情绪较高的个体在观看悲伤的媒体内容时，更倾向于采用适应不良的情绪调节策略，而特质正性情绪较高的青少年在观看悲伤或快乐的媒体内容时，更倾向于采用更适应的策略。然而，媒体反应方式与抑郁症状之间并没有随着时间的推移而产生稳定的关联。
