‘I am perfectly imperfect because I am a media professional’: Asserting the Association Between Media Consumption Attitude, Emotional Ownership and Personal Well-being

Q2 Social Sciences

Asia Pacific Media Educator Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI:10.1177/1326365X20970424

V. V. Kumar, L. K. Jena

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A profession that leads to well-being is rewarding and fulfilling, as it is a vital factor in ascertaining the happiness and purpose of one’s life. Information and communications technology has become an integral part of everyone’s life in contemporary times. Media professionals are engaged in using various types of digital and online media for their work-related needs. At many times, due to extensive work requirements, they carry their professional commitments outside the office hours. Due to their obsessive media consumption attitude, they lose out on spending time with their families and themselves. The purpose of this study was to examine the role of such media consumption attitude in relation to personal well-being. For this, 429 working professionals from different domains of media across the Indian subcontinent participated in our survey. The results revealed that media usage has a significant role in influencing personal well-being. At the same time, emotional ownership stood to be a mediator in the relationship between media consumption attitude and personal well-being. The findings pave the way to understand the professional and personal challenges faced by media professionals, while suggesting a possible roadmap for achieving a happy and purposeful life.

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“我非常不完美，因为我是一名媒体专业人士”:断言媒体消费态度、情感所有权和个人幸福感之间的关系

一份能带来幸福的职业是值得的、令人满足的，因为它是确定一个人生活幸福和目标的重要因素。信息通信技术在当代已经成为每个人生活中不可或缺的一部分。媒体专业人士使用各种类型的数字和在线媒体来满足他们与工作相关的需求。很多时候，由于广泛的工作要求，他们在办公时间之外承担专业责任。由于他们沉迷于媒体消费的态度，他们失去了与家人和自己在一起的时间。本研究的目的是探讨这种媒体消费态度对个人幸福感的作用。为此，来自印度次大陆不同媒体领域的429名专业人士参与了我们的调查。结果显示，媒体使用对个人幸福感有显著影响。同时，情感所有权在媒介消费态度与个人幸福感之间的关系中起到中介作用。这些发现为了解媒体从业者面临的职业和个人挑战铺平了道路，同时为实现幸福和有意义的生活提供了可能的路线图。

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期刊介绍： Asia Pacific Media Educator is an international refereed journal published twice a year by SAGE Publications (New Delhi) in collaboration with the School of the Arts, English and Media, Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts, University of Wollongong in Australia. The journal follows international norms and procedures of blind peer reviewing by scholars representing a wide range of multi-disciplinary areas. APME focuses on generating discussions and dialogues among media educators, researchers and journalists. Content ranges from critical commentaries and essays to research reports and papers that contribute to journalism theory development and offer innovative ideas in improving the standard and currency of media reportage, teaching and training specific to the Asia Pacific region. Papers that integrate media theories with applications to professional practice, media training and journalism education are usually selected for peer review. APME also carries a Q&A section with book authors. APME takes conventional book reviews to a more creative level where reviewers directly engage with authors to understand the process that authors take in researching and writing the book, clarify their assumptions and pose critical questions.