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MEDIA PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 26, Issue 4, Pages 388-413Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/15213269.2022.2147085
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Socially excluded individuals often turn to media as coping mechanisms for loneliness, restoring threatened needs, and regulating emotions. This paper explores the different media applications used by individuals to overcome social exclusion experiences and examines the effectiveness in terms of need restoration and emotion regulation. The study identifies various coping tools and strategies, finding that media serves as multifunctional tools for coping mechanisms. The results show that these tools are effective in 59% of cases, with different strategies varying in effectiveness. The paper concludes with six suggestions for future research in this field.
Socially excluded individuals often use media to cope with their feelings of loneliness, restore threatened needs, and regulate their emotions. However, social exclusion experiences have often been studied from a social-psychological perspective, with little consideration of media-specific characteristics. Thus, this paper aims to identify which different media applications individuals use to overcome social exclusion experiences and how effective this is in terms of need restoration and emotion regulation. A systematic review yielded 119 studies investigating 274 coping tools and 134 underlying strategies. Results indicated that media represent multifunctional tools that enable behavioral approach, behavioral avoidance, cognitive approach, and cognitive avoidance coping. Overall, using these tools was effective in 59% of all cases, with different strategies being linked to more or less effectiveness. By highlighting the theoretical implications of these findings, this paper provides six suggestions that can guide future research within this field.
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