News Consumption and Its Unpleasant Side Effect: Studying the Effect of Hard and Soft News Exposure on Mental Well-Being Over Time
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Abstract. Following the news is generally understood to be crucial for democracy as it allows citizens to politically participate in an informed manner; yet, one may wonder about the unintended side effects it has for the mental well-being of citizens. With news focusing on the negative and worrisome events in the world, framing that evokes a sense of powerlessness, and lack of entertainment value, this study hypothesizes that news consumption decreases mental well-being via negative hedonic experiences; thereby, we differentiate between hard and soft news. Using a panel survey in combination with latent growth curve modeling (n = 2,767), we demonstrate that the consumption of hard news television programs has a negative effect on the development of mental well-being over time. Soft news consumption, by contrast, has a marginally positive impact on the trend in well-being. This can be explained by the differential topic focus, framing and style of soft news vis-à-vis hard news. Investigating the effects of news consumption on mental well-being provides insight into the impact news exposure has on variables other than the political ones, which definitively are not less societally relevant.
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- Authors
- Boukes, M., & Vliegenthart, R.
- Affiliations
- University of Amsterdam (NL)
- Venue
- Journal of Media Psychology
- Publisher
- Hogrefe Publishing Group
- Published
- 2017-07
- Volume
- 29
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 137-147
- ISSN
- 1864-1105 (ISSN-L)
- 2151-2388
- OpenAlex
- W2751695687
- Cited by
- 101
- References
- 72
- Citations by year
- 2026: 17 · 2025: 13 · 2024: 15 · 2023: 10 · 2022: 22 · 2021: 17 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 1
- FWCI
- 4.44
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Journal of Media Psychology Theories Methods and Applications (publishedVersion)
- UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling (submittedVersion)
- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (016.145.369)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Communication › Media Studies and Communication
- Social Sciences › Communication › Communication and COVID-19 Impact
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Media Influence and Politics
- Keywords
- news consumption, psychological well-being, hard news, soft news, television news, hedonic experience, news framing, powerlessness, negative news
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