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Psychological distress, perceived social support, and television viewing for reasons of companionship: A test of the compensation hypothesis in a population of crime victims

Becoming a crime victim is often associated with the development of psychological distress symptoms...

Keywords: crime victims, perceived social support, psychological distress, television, uses and gratifications

06/2005 | Communications, Walter de Gruyter

Transcending Uses and Gratifications: Media use as social action and the use of event history analysis

It is argued that since its institutionalization in the 1970s, Uses and Gratifications research has been heavily influenced by applied economic theories about Expectancy Value and Subjective Expected Utility...

Keywords: uses and gratifications, action theory, media use, social action, event history analysis

06/2006 | Communications, Walter de Gruyter

Explaining and analyzing audiences: A social cognitive approach to selectivity and media use

This study explored LaRose and Eastin's (2004) model of media attendance, within a European context...

Keywords: media use, social cognitive theory, uses and gratifications

09/2006 | Communications, Walter de Gruyter

The social character of parental and adolescent television viewing: An event history analysis

The amount of time that people spend on watching television is a matter of social concern...

Keywords: television viewing, uses and gratifications, everyday life, socialization, (reverse) socialization, event history analysis, action theoretical perspective