scholarly journals The effects of constructive television news reporting on prosocial intentions and behavior in children: The role of negative emotions and self-efficacy

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Iris van Venrooij ◽  
Tobias Sachs ◽  
Mariska Kleemans
Keyword(s):  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Television News ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Emotional Responses ◽  
News Story ◽  
News Reporting ◽  
News Video ◽  
Prosocial Intentions ◽  
And Behavior

Abstract To reduce negative emotional responses and to stimulate prosociality, constructive journalism promotes the inclusion of positive emotions and solutions in news. This study experimentally tested whether including those elements indeed increased prosocial intentions and behavior among children, and whether negative emotions and self-efficacy are mediators in this regard. To this end, children (N = 468; 9 to 13 years old) were exposed to an emotion-based, solution-based, or non-constructive news video. Results showed that emotion-based and solution-based news reduced children’s negative emotions compared to non-constructive news. No direct effects for prosocial intentions were found, but solution-based news led to less prosocial behavior (i. e., money donated) than emotion-based and non-constructive news. Moreover, negative emotions served as a mediator, self-efficacy did not. The more negative emotions were elicited by a news story, the higher the prosocial intentions and behavior. In conclusion, a constructive style of reporting helps to reduce children’s negative emotional responses but subsequently hinders prosociality.

scholarly journals Positive Emotions Boost Enthusiastic Responsiveness to Capitalization Attempts. Dissecting Self-Report, Physiology, and Behavior

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lukasz D. Kaczmarek ◽  
Todd B. Kashdan ◽  
Maciej Behnke ◽  
Martyna Dziekan ◽  
Ewelina Matuła ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Emotional Valence ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Physiological Reactivity ◽  
Direct Effects ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Video Clips ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Positive And Negative Emotions

AbstractWhen individuals communicate enthusiasm for good events in their partners' lives, they contribute to a high-quality relationship; a phenomenon termed interpersonal capitalization. However, little is known when individuals are more ready to react enthusiastically to the partner's success. To address this gap, we examined whether positive and negative emotions boost or inhibit enthusiastic responses to partner's capitalization attempts (RCA). Participants (N = 224 individuals) responded to their partner's success. Before each capitalization attempt (operationalized as responses following the news that their partner won money in a game), we used video clips to elicit positive (primarily amusement) or negative (primarily anger) or neutral emotions in the responder. We recorded emotional valence, smiling intensity, verbal RCA, and physiological reactivity. We found indirect (but not direct) effects such that eliciting positive emotions boosted and negative emotions inhibited enthusiastic RCA (smiling intensity and enthusiastic verbal RCA). These effects were relatively small and mediated by emotional valence and smiling intensity but not physiological reactivity. The results offer novel evidence that positive emotions fuel the capitalization process.

scholarly journals The Relationship between Peer Attachment and Aggressive Behavior among Chinese Adolescents: The Mediating Effect of Regulatory Emotional Self-Efficacy

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (13) ◽  
pp. 7123
Author(s):  
Haitao Liu ◽  
Kai Dou ◽  
Chengfu Yu ◽  
Yangang Nie ◽  
Xue Zheng
Keyword(s):  
Aggressive Behavior ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Chinese Adolescents ◽  
Peer Attachment ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Potential Mechanism ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The Relationship

This study aimed to test the association between peer attachment and aggressive behavior, as well as the mediating effect of regulatory emotional self-efficacy on this relationship. A total of 1171 (582 male, 589 female) Chinese adolescents completed self-reported questionnaires that assessed peer attachment, regulatory emotional self-efficacy, and aggressive behavior. Path analysis showed that the negative association between peer attachment and adolescent aggressive behavior was mediated by self-efficacy in managing negative emotions. However, the mediating effect of self-efficacy in expressing positive emotions was nonsignificant. Moreover, there was no significant difference in the indirect paths mentioned above between male and female respondents. These findings highlight self-efficacy in managing negative emotions as a potential mechanism linking peer attachment to adolescent aggressive behavior.

scholarly journals Investigating User Emotional Responses to Eco-Feedback Designs

2018 ◽  
Vol 141 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Qifang Bao ◽  
Edward Burnell ◽  
Ann M. Hughes ◽  
Maria C. Yang
Keyword(s):  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Emotional Responses ◽  
Resource Conservation ◽  
Feedback Information ◽  
Feedback Design ◽  
Lab Experiments ◽  
Conservation Actions ◽  
Highly Correlated

Emotional responses to a product can be critical in influencing how the product will be used. This study explores the emotions that arise from users' interaction with eco-feedback products, and investigates links between emotions and users' resource conservation behaviors. In-lab experiments were conducted with 68 participants of varying backgrounds. Each participant was shown sketches of four conceptual designs of eco-feedback products and reported how they would feel and behave in different scenarios using the products. Two styles of eco-feedback design, quantitative and figurative, were compared to each other and were compared to neutral designs, which had little or no feedback information. Results showed that taking resource conservation actions such as turning off lights was highly correlated with negative emotions toward wasting resources, such as guilt, upset, embarrassment, and annoyance. Users' evaluations of esthetics, usefulness, and overall quality of eco-feedback products, however, were highly correlated with positive emotions toward resource conservation, described as satisfied, proud, interested, and joyful. Figurative designs were observed to evoke much stronger emotions among younger participants than older ones. Ultimately, we hope our findings are useful to the designers of eco-feedback products.

Selma in the “Glaring Light of Television”

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aniko Bodroghkozy
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
Television News ◽  
Voting Rights ◽  
News Story ◽  
Voting Rights Act ◽  
News Reporting ◽  
News Program ◽  
American Press ◽  
Television Coverage

This chapter examines television news' reporting of the Selma campaign for voting rights that led directly to the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Television cameras present on the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Sunday March 7, 1965, were able to capture the beating, gassing, and brutalizing suffered by voting rights demonstrators as they attempted to march to Montgomery. The uproar generated by that footage generated more support, volunteers, and moral clout for the civil rights movement. This chapter considers how one news program, The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite, presented the Selma campaign as an ongoing nightly news story, with particular emphasis on its coverage of the campaign's three martyrs: Jimmie Lee Jackson, Rev. James Reeb, and Viola Liuzzo. It also discusses the response of white Selmians in the “glaring light of television” and the commentary in the African American press regarding the television coverage of the campaign.

scholarly journals Integrative View of Emotion and the Dedication-Constraint Model in the Case of Coffee Chain Retailers

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daekil Kim ◽  
Byoungsoo Kim
Keyword(s):  
Willingness To Pay ◽  
Brand Loyalty ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Emotional Responses ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Price Fairness ◽  
Integrative View ◽  
Constraint Model ◽  
Positive And Negative Emotions

: Following the phenomenal growth of and competition among coffee chain retailers, the coffee chain market has expanded substantially thanks to rising income levels, the increasing young population, and rapidly changing lifestyles. Attracting consumers’ attention and enhancing their loyalty behaviors have become very difficult for coffee chain retailers. This study seeks to understand the mechanisms through which emotions and the dedication-constraint model lead to brand loyalty and willingness to pay more to certain coffee chain retailers. Emotions and the dedication-constraint model are major factors in the research, but few studies have combined them to examine the formation of loyalty behaviors. This study synthesizes emotional responses and the dedication-constraint model to develop a theoretical model. Based on the ambivalent view of emotions, it also examines how positive and negative emotions affect the combination of brand loyalty and willingness to pay more to certain coffee chain retailers. Moreover, it identifies the antecedents of affective and calculative commitments in the context of coffee chain retailers. Our findings indicate that loyalty behaviors (dedication- and constraint-based mechanisms from brand loyalty and willingness to pay more to certain coffee chain retailers), emotional responses, and affective and calculative commitments significantly affect brand loyalty directly and indirectly through both positive and negative emotions. Furthermore, service quality, physical environment quality, and price fairness significantly affect affective commitments, while price fairness significantly affects both affective and calculative commitments. Finally, affective and calculative commitments significantly affect willingness to pay more, both directly and indirectly, through positive emotions and affect it directly through negative emotions. The results’ theoretical and managerial implications and possible future research directions are discussed.

scholarly journals Self-Efficacy in Regulating Positive and Negative Emotions

2013 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 197-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Gunzenhauser ◽  
Tobias Heikamp ◽  
Maria Gerbino ◽  
Guido Alessandri ◽  
Antje von Suchodoletz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Factor Structure ◽  
Psychosocial Adjustment ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Convergent Validity ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Cognitive Emotion Regulation ◽  
Gender Invariance ◽  
Partial Invariance

Perceived self-efficacy in emotion regulation facilitates various aspects of psychosocial adjustment. The Regulatory Emotional Self-Efficacy scale (RESE) by Caprara and Gerbino (2001) measures perceived capabilities to express positive emotions (POS) and to manage negative emotions, namely, despondency/distress (DES) and anger/irritation (ANG). The present research investigated the validity of the RESE scale in Germany. Study 1 investigated the factor structure and convergent validity of the scale in a sample of university students. In order to test the generalizability of findings from Study 1, in Study 2 we studied the factor structure, cross-gender invariance, and convergent validity of a slightly revised version of the scale in a sample of parents. The previously found factor structure was successfully replicated in both samples. Partial invariance on the scalar level was confirmed across gender. All self-efficacy subscales were positively correlated with life satisfaction and with reappraisal (a cognitive emotion regulation strategy). Suppression, a strategy of regulating emotional expression, was negatively related to POS. Findings suggest that the RESE scale is a valid instrument to assess emotion regulation self-efficacy in German-speaking samples.

I vantaggi del mentoring in organizzazione: alcune differenze tra mentee e non-mentee

RISORSA UOMO ◽  
2009 ◽  
pp. 291-307
Author(s):  
Paola Gatti ◽  
Federica Emanuel
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Developmental Relationships ◽  
Organizational Literature

- Organizational literature has described the advantages of mentoring for mentors and, above all, for mentees. A survey of 200 respondents employed in three organizations in northwestern Italy shows that mentees have higher mean scores for job satisfaction, self-efficacy on the job and positive emotions at work than non-mentees. Mentees also show lower mean scores for negative emotions at work than non-mentees. This last result, however, is not confirmed by the regression analysis. Mentees reporting different degrees of satisfaction with the mentoring experience show significant differences in selfefficacy on the job and in variables that investigate mentoring perceptions.Keywords: mentoring, mentoring advantages, developmental relationships.Parole chiave: mentoring, vantaggi del mentoring, relazioni di sviluppo.

Emotional Stability and Affective Self–regulatory Efficacy Beliefs: Proofs of Integration between Trait Theory and Social Cognitive Theory

2013 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gianvittorio Caprara ◽  
Michele Vecchione ◽  
Claudio Barbaranelli ◽  
Guido Alessandri
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Social Cognitive Theory ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Social Cognitive ◽  
Cognitive Theory ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Efficacy Beliefs ◽  
Emotional Stability ◽  
Effective Interventions

The present study aimed to investigate the development and interplay of emotional stability and affective self–regulatory efficacy beliefs through adolescence to young adulthood. A latent growth curve approach was used to investigate level and stability of emotional stability and self–efficacy in managing negative emotions and in expressing positive emotions. We found that initial levels of emotional stability and self–efficacy beliefs are highly correlated. In accordance with the posited hypothesis, the growth rate of perceived self–efficacy in managing negative emotions predicted the growth rate of emotional stability, whereas the opposite path was not significant. The growth rates of perceived self–efficacy in expressing positive emotions and emotional stability were not related to each other. Taken together, these findings point to self–efficacy beliefs as instrumental to the change of traits. Practical implications of results are discussed, highlighting the role of social cognitive theory in supplying the proper strategies to design effective interventions to enable people to make the best use of their potentials. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Abnormality in News Stories

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Soohee Kim ◽  
Catherine Suyoun Oh
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Responses ◽  
News Story ◽  
Social Injustice ◽  
Sentence Structure ◽  
Online Experiment ◽  
Social Event ◽  
Behavioral Consequences ◽  
Unexpected Event ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Prosocial Intentions

Abstract. What makes people show emotional responses toward victims of social injustice in news stories? What are the behavioral consequences of these emotions? Using an online experiment, this study examined the effects of abnormality perception on how people make cognitive and affective assessments of a negative social event. We found that content abnormality (i.e., an unusual/unexpected event) perceived in news stories leads people to attribute less responsibility to the victim and experience stronger emotional responses (i.e., anger and sadness). This in turn increases the desire for a stronger punishment toward the perpetrator. Syntactic abnormality (i.e., negation) indirectly influenced punitive judgment by increasing the responsibility attributed to the offender. The use of negation as the dominant sentence structure (syntactic abnormality) reduced prosocial intentions, but only when the news story was depicted as an abnormal occurrence (content abnormality). These findings illuminate the interconnections between abnormality perception, emotion, and judgment.

Intensity of Emotions Conveyed and Elicited by Familiar and Unfamiliar Music

2010 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 177-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Omar Ali ◽  
Zehra F. Peynircioǧǧlu
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Response ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Emotional Responses

WE REPLICATED PREVIOUS FINDINGS AND DEMONSTRATED that familiarity with musical stimuli increased 'liking' or 'preference' for the stimuli. We also demonstrated that familiarity increased the intensity of emotional responses to music, but only when the stimuli were made highly familiar through en masse repetitions (Experiment 3) rather than through interspersed repetitions (Experiment 1). In addition, intensity ratings were higher when participants were asked to judge the emotion conveyed by the music than when they were asked to judge the emotion elicited by the same music (Experiments 2 and 3). Finally, positive emotions (i.e., happy and calm) were rated higher compared with negative emotions (i.e., sad and angry) for both types of ratings (i.e., conveyed or elicited). The findings suggest that familiarity plays a role in modulating a listener's emotional response to music.

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