PSY336H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Text Messaging, Barista, Analgesic
Document Summary
Books and newspapers, radio and television, video and computer games. Any device or method people use to transcend the constraints of their immediate physical environment. Psychological well-being: not only subjective well-being but also the factors inextricably linked to subjective well-being such as basic human needs. Emotional well-being: affective components of subjective well-being (i. e. , positive and negative affect) Ci model of effects of media technology on psychological well-being. Media technology complements the well-being affordances of the unmediated physical environment by providing access to activities and information not otherwise available to users. Media technology can also interfere with the sources of well-being through attention costs and replacement/displacement of unmediated happiness-promoting activities. Moderating factors govern the interplay between these complementary and interferences processes, including how and how much people use media technology and to what extent the concurrent unmediated physical requirement affords engagement in happiness-promoting activities.
