Association between Media Use, Acute Stress Disorder and Psychological Distress
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People in uncertain situations, such as disaster events or pandemics, seek information via media to alleviate negative feelings.
“a substantial body of research indeed confirms that people in uncertain situations, such as disaster events or pandemics, seek information via media to alleviate negative feelings”
From Impact of Media-Induced Uncertainty on Mental Health: Narrative-Based Perspective. (2025) · cites this paper as [142]
Section 2 (page not provided) reports that respondents used media to obtain information about Typhoon Haiyan. It does not establish that they did so to alleviate negative feelings or examine pandemics; instead, it associates some social-media use with higher distress and says the study cannot determine whether anxiety drives that use. (LLM, conf=0.88)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredThe pattern of extensive media exposure perpetuating stress and psychopathology is particularly characteristic of social media use.
“and this pattern is particularly characteristic of the use of social media [27,74,142-145].”
From Impact of Media-Induced Uncertainty on Mental Health: Narrative-Based Perspective. (2025) · cites this paper as [142]
The discussion (section 2) reports that use of multiple social, but not traditional, media sources was significantly associated with acute stress disorder and psychological distress after a disaster. This supports the social-media comparison, but not the claim that extensive exposure perpetuates those conditions: the study measured sources used, and the authors say their cross-sectional design cannot establish whether anxiety instead drives social-media use. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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- Authors
- Goodwin, R., Palgi, Y., Lavenda, O., Hamama-Raz, Y., & Ben-Ezra, M.
- Affiliations
- University of Warwick (GB)
- University of Haifa (IL)
- Ariel University (IL)
- Corresponding author
- Goodwin, Robin
- Venue
- Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics
- Publisher
- S. Karger AG
- Published
- 2015
- Volume
- 84
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 253-254
- ISSN
- 0033-3190 (ISSN-L)
- 1423-0348
- OpenAlex
- W1584936912
- Cited by
- 33
- References
- 10
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 2 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 8 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 1
- FWCI
- 5.38
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Warwick Research Archive Portal (University of Warwick) (acceptedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Keywords
- media use, acute stress disorder, psychological distress, media exposure
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Disasters, Female, Humans, Male, Mass Media, Philippines, Stress, Psychological, Internet, Stress Disorders, Traumatic, Acute, Cyclonic Storms, Social Media
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