A Daily Diary Investigation of the Link Between Television Watching and Positive Affect

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2019-04-01

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Bayraktaroglu, Deniz
GÜNAYDIN, GÜL
Selçuk, Emre
Ong, Anthony D.

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Past research has shown a negative relationship between time spent watching television (TV) and several indicators of hedonic well-beingincluding positive affect (PA). However, cross-sectional designs employed in most of these studies do not allow for inferences regarding the direction of the link between TV watching and PA. Present research aimed to address this gap by using daily diary data from a large national sample of U.S. adults (N=1668, age=33-83years). Respondents reported time spent watching TV as well as PA for eight consecutive days. Results of multilevel modeling analyses showed that duration of TV watching on the previous day did not significantly predict changes in PA on the next day. However, PA on the previous day significantly predicted decreases in duration of TV watching the following day. The results held after controlling for factors known to predict duration of TV watching and PA (i.e., age, gender, income level, employment status, marital status, health status, and personality traits). The present research goes beyond past cross-sectional work by shedding light on the direction of the link between TV watching and PA. Our findings indicate that watching TV does not seem to diminish PAas critics of TV proclaimbut individuals seem to watch TV to a greater extent whenever they experience reduced PA.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/52230

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JOURNAL OF HAPPINESS STUDIES

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https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-018-9989-8

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D. Bayraktaroglu, G. GÜNAYDIN, E. Selçuk, and A. D. Ong, “A Daily Diary Investigation of the Link Between Television Watching and Positive Affect,” JOURNAL OF HAPPINESS STUDIES, pp. 1089–1101, 2019, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/52230.