Psychological Escapism: Predicting the Amount of Television Viewing by Need for Cognition

By B. Henning, Peter Vorderer. 2001

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Literature and Literary Theory, Sociology and Political Science

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Persuasive Effects of Fictional Narratives Increase Over Time (2007, unknown): “Cacioppo & Petty, 1982; for relationships to media exposure see Henning & Vorderer, 2001, and”
The Video Game Experience as “True” Identification: A Theory of Enjoyable Alterations of Players' Self‐Perception (2009, background): “…explanation focuses on distraction processes rather than identification in our sense, however: According to the authors, watching TV helps people avoid reflection on their self-discrepancies and thus facilitates positive conditions of subjective self-awareness (see also Henning & Vorderer, 2001).”
Transportation Across Media: Repeated Exposure to Print and Film (2008, background): “Individuals low in need for cognition tend to prefer tasks that require less cognitive effort and, therefore, individuals lower in need for cognition may prefer the arguably less-effortful task of watching a film (eg, Henning & Vorderer, 2001 ).”
The Role of Motivation and Media Involvement in Explaining Internet Dependency (2008, background): “Examining other links between involvement and media use, Henning and Vorderer (2001) found that people with a low need for cognition and unhappy feelings usually watched television more often than did their counterparts.”
Social media adoption: The role of media needs and innovation characteristics (2015, background): “Escapism is operationalised as the extent to which the user becomes so absorbed that they tend to fulfil their desire to ‘leave’ the reality in which they live in a cognitive and emotional way (Henning & Vorderer, 2001).”
Enjoyment of films as a function of narrative experience, perceived realism and transportability (2011, background): “In the case of mediated experiences the viewer is relieved from the self and from the negative concerns of the actual world (Henning and Vorderer, 2001; Katz and Foulkes, 1962).”
Audience Personality and the Selection of Media and Media Genres (2005, background): “…mass media, including loneliness (Finn & Gorr, 1988), psychological variables such as locus of control (Conway & Rubin, 1991) and need for cognition (Henning & Vorderer, 2001), and personality or temperament factors including need for activation (Donohew, Palmgreen, & Rayburn, 1987), shyness (Finn…”
Media Exposure and Exemplar Accessibility (2003, background): “…participants’ cognitive abilities and orientation as well as the extent to which they tended to pay attention while viewing, both of which have been shown to be related to the processing of media content (Henning & Vorderer, 2001; Kaufman, Stasson, & Hart, 1999; Perse, 1992; Zhang & Buda, 1999).”
Relational consequences of compulsive Internet use: a longitudinal study among newlyweds (2011, background): “Escapism is described as a mental retreat for people who feel uncomfortable or troubled in the real world (Henning & Vorderer, 2001; Vorderer et al., 2004).”