Personal Characteristics and Coping Strategies of Students Who Prefer Various Media Content

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10.2991/assehr.k.200509.086How to use a DOI?

Keywords

information, media content, personal characteristics, coping strategy

Abstract

The article is devoted to the problems of interaction of young people with the modern information environment, the study of psychological reasons for choosing media content of various types. The article presents the results of an empirical study on a student sample (n = 87). The questionnaire of media content preferences developed by the authors is justified. It was found that the majority of students prefer information, the main features of which are novelty and entertainment. It was revealed that emotionally more mature students choose information of an educational nature that requires analysis. While students, that are more neurotic, less aware, and have a low level of control over emotions and behavior, prefer entertainment and new content. It was discovered that the choice of a particular group of genres reflects the personal characteristics of students.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - A.M. Pan’kova
AU  - Yu.V. Sychenko
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/05/13
TI  - Personal Characteristics and Coping Strategies of Students Who Prefer Various Media Content
BT  - Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference “Digitalization of Education: History, Trends and Prospects” (DETP 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 473
EP  - 479
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200509.086
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200509.086
ID  - Pan’kova2020
ER  -