Mood Management: Theory, Evidence, and Advancements

By Silvia Knobloch-Westerwick. 2013

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Subfields: Literature and Literary Theory

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Entertaining Media Use and the Satisfaction of Recovery Needs: Recovery Outcomes Associated With the Use of Interactive and Noninteractive Entertaining Media (2011, background): “The theory is based on the assumption that individuals aim at minimizing states of negative mood or arousal and maximizing positive or pleasurable moods and levels of arousal (Knobloch-Westerwick, 2006).”
Why Celebrity Sells: A Dual Entertainment Path Model of Brand Endorsement (2014, background): “This makes fantasizing about the celebrity a common form of mood management and a core strand along the playful entertainment path (Knobloch-Westerwick 2006).”
Media Effects: Theory and Research. (2016, background): “…to watching violent, sexual, and frightening media; psychoticism (characterized by impulsiveness and nonconformism) to attraction to horror films; and need for cognition to exposure to various mainstream types of news (for reviews see Knobloch-Westerwick 2006, Krcmar 2009, Oliver & Krakowiak 2009).”
Using Media for Coping: A Scoping Review (2020, methodology): “It predicts that individuals choose media stimuli in order to adjust their mood to the most beneficial mood for the current circumstances or upcoming events (Knobloch-Westerwick, 2006, 2015; Luong & Knobloch-Westerwick, 2017).”
Emotional Gratification in Entertainment Experience. Why Viewers of Movies and Television Series Find it Rewarding to Experience Emotions (2012, background): “…to balanced arousal, mood management theory highlights the gratification of positive affective valence, and the gratification associated with the absorption potential of strong emotions that can help distract individuals from negative thoughts (for an overview, see Knobloch-Westerwick, 2006).”