Staying-at-Home with Tragedy: Self-expansion Through Narratives Promotes Positive Coping with Identity Threat
| Autor: | Soya Nah, Guan Soon Khoo, Jeeyun Oh |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Self-Perceptual Depth
Linguistics and Language media_common.quotation_subject Identity (social science) 050801 communication & media studies 050109 social psychology Eudaimonia AcademicSubjects/GEN00325 Boundary Expansion 0508 media and communications Developmental and Educational Psychology 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Narrative media_common Pandemic Communication Self 05 social sciences Cognitive reframing Original Articles Eudaimonic Entertainment AcademicSubjects/GEN00327 Feeling Anthropology Tragedy (event) Feeling Moved Identity Threat Psychology Social psychology Drama |
| Zdroj: | Human Communication Research |
| ISSN: | 1468-2958 0360-3989 |
| Popis: | The COVID-19 pandemic created a historic opportunity to study the link between identity threat and individuals' temporary expansion of the boundaries of the self (TEBOTS) through stories. Concurrently, the relationship between eudaimonic entertainment processes and self-expansion, particularly feeling moved and self-awareness, was examined. A quasi-experiment was conducted with an online sample (N = 172) that was randomly assigned to watch either a tragic drama or comedy. Results showed that key TEBOTS predictions were largely confirmed for boundary expansion and the outcomes of narrative engagement and entertainment gratifications. Although identity threat was negatively associated with positive coping with the pandemic, this relationship turned positive when mediated by boundary expansion. Further, exposure to tragedy raised feelings of "being moved," which, in turn, was linked to self-perceptual depth and expanded boundaries of the self downstream. The present findings suggest that self-expansion through story consumption could benefit viewers' positive reframing of challenging life experiences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of Human Communication Research is the property of Oxford University Press / USA and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.) |
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