ELDERLY VIEWERS RESPONSES TO TELEVISED PORTRAYALS OF OLD-AGE - EMPATHY AND MOOD MANAGEMENT VERSUS SOCIAL-COMPARISON

被引:102
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MARES, ML
CANTOR, J
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10.1177/009365092019004004
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G2 [信息与知识传播];
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05 ; 0503 ;
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This study examined the effects of differently valenced portrayals of old age on the emotional responses of elderly viewers. Lonely and nonlonely elderly people (as determined in a pretest) were given a series of descriptions of television offerings and indicated the degree to which they desired to see each program. In a separate session, they were randomly assigned to view a negative portrayal (involving an unhappy, isolated old man) or a positive portrayal (involving a happy, socially integrated old man). The results indicated that lonely subjects showed greater interest in viewing negative than positive portrayals, whereas nonlonely subjects exhibited the opposite preference. In addition, lonely subjects felt better after viewing the negative portrayal than after the positive portrayal, whereas nonlonely subjects felt better after the positive than after the negative portrayal. The findings therefore indicated that elderly viewers may benefit from varied portrayals of old age more than from uniformly positive or negative depictions.
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