Brush the news addicted?Beware!

Text ｜ Li Muzi

A recent study published by "Health Communication" found that people with constant inspection of news are more likely to suffer stress, anxiety and physical diseases.

In the past two years, people have experienced a series of worrying global incidents, from the new crown epidemic to shooting and destruction.

For most people, reading bad news will temporarily feel weak and pain.

For another person, the ever -changing incident will have a serious impact on their psychological and physical health, such as people with high health addiction "better physical health is worse."

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"Bryan McLAUGHLIN, an associate professor of advertising at the School of Media and Communication of Texas University of Science and Technology in the United States, said," Witnessing these incidents in the news may make some people be in a high degree of vigilance and make the world look like a dark and dangerous place. "

"For these people, a vicious circle may be formed. In this vicious cycle, not only did they not be in trouble, they would be further attracted and obsessed with the news. Emotional distress. But this is not available. The more they look at the news, the more disturbing the other aspects of life, "McLAUGHLIN said.

In order to study this phenomenon of news addiction, McLlayGhlin and colleague Melissa Gotlieb and Devin Mills analyzed the online survey data of 100 American adults.

In this survey, people were asked to how much the following said: "I am too addicted to the news, so that I forgot the surrounding world" "My brain is often occupied by news ideas" "I find it difficult to stop seeing "News" and "I often do not focus on school or work because I am reading or watching news."

The interviewees were also asked how many times they felt stress and anxiety, as well as whether fatigue, physical pain, inadequate attention, and gastrointestinal problems.

The survey results show that there are 16.5%of the "serious problems" of news consumption. These people are often immersed in news stories, so that these stories dominate their thinking when they are sober, making it difficult for them to focus on learning or work, and cause anxiety and unable to fall asleep.

In addition, even in the case of controlling population statistics, personality characteristics, and overall news use, people with higher levels of news consumption are more likely to experience spiritual and physical discomfort than those with low level of news consumption.

When asked about the frequency of psychological health or physical disease symptoms in the past month, the results showed that 73.6%of those who were considered "serious problems" have experienced "quite a lot" or "very very" "very very" or "very very very" 61%of the mental illness experienced "quite a lot" or "a lot" physical discomfort.

"Although we want people to continue to pay attention to the news, the important thing is that they have a healthier relationship with the news." McLAUGHLIN said that the survey results show that it is necessary to carry out targeted media lighter activities to help people establish a healthier relationship with the news to establish a healthier relationship with the news. Essence

"The economic pressure faced by the media, coupled with technological progress and 24 -hour news cycle, prompting reporters to focus on the content of" news value "that can attract news consumers' attention." McLAUGHLIN said, "However, for some, for a certain way For some types of people, conflicts and dramatic stories with news value will not only attract their attention, but also cause them to have a discomfort with news. Therefore, our research results emphasize that the commercial pressure faced by the news media is not only It is not conducive to maintaining health, and it may be harmful to personal health. "

Related thesis information:

http://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2022.2106086

"China Science News" (2022-08-30 No. 2 Edition International)

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