Why Don’t You Answer Me?! Exploring the Effects of (Repeated Exposure to) Ostracism via Messengers on Users’ Fundamental Needs, Well-Being, and Coping Motivation

IF 3.4 2区心理学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

Media Psychology Pub Date : 2022-07-20 DOI:10.1080/15213269.2022.2101008

S. Lutz

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Abstract

ABSTRACT This preregistered diary study shed light on the effects of computer-mediated communication on users’ fundamental needs and well-being. As a specific demanding situation, it focused on the experience of cyber-ostracism, defined as not receiving replies from others on a sent message. Hypotheses were derived from the temporal need-threat model. To test these hypotheses, 214 participants answered 1,378 questionnaires over the course of one week. The results have shown that being cyber-ostracized via messengers (e.g., WhatsApp) was negatively associated with the satisfaction of users’ needs for belonging, self-esteem, meaningful existence, and control. Moreover, mediated via these needs, there was a negative indirect association between cyber-ostracism and well-being. Messenger users’ trait mindfulness served as a buffering mechanism: For mindful users, low satisfaction of the need for meaningful existence was not associated with decreased eudaimonic well-being. Moreover, although messengers were perceived as a source of exclusion, cyber-ostracized users reported an increased desire to use these services on the respective following day, representing an approach coping tendency. All additional files referred to in this paper can be found at https://osf.io/fqbya/.

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你为什么不回答我？！通过信使探索（反复暴露于）排斥对用户基本需求、幸福感和应对动机的影响

摘要：这项预先注册的日记研究揭示了计算机媒介通信对用户基本需求和幸福感的影响。作为一种特殊的要求苛刻的情况，它关注的是网络排斥的体验，即在发送的信息中没有收到他人的回复。假设来源于时间需求威胁模型。为了验证这些假设，214名参与者在一周内回答了1378份问卷。研究结果表明，通过信使（如WhatsApp）受到网络排斥与用户归属感、自尊、有意义的存在和控制需求的满足呈负相关。此外，通过这些需求，网络排斥与幸福感之间存在负面的间接联系。信使用户的特质正念是一种缓冲机制：对于正念用户来说，对有意义的存在需求的低满意度与自我幸福感的降低无关。此外，尽管信使被视为排斥的来源，但被网络排斥的用户报告说，他们在第二天使用这些服务的愿望增加了，这代表了一种应对方式的趋势。本文中提到的所有其他文件都可以在https://osf.io/fqbya/.

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来源期刊

Media Psychology Multiple-

CiteScore

8.60

自引率

7.10%

发文量

期刊介绍： Media Psychology is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to publishing theoretically-oriented empirical research that is at the intersection of psychology and media communication. These topics include media uses, processes, and effects. Such research is already well represented in mainstream journals in psychology and communication, but its publication is dispersed across many sources. Therefore, scholars working on common issues and problems in various disciplines often cannot fully utilize the contributions of kindred spirits in cognate disciplines.