| It is very important to cultivate the feeling of gratitude and awes for college mental health education and political education.Since the spring up of positive psychology,positive emotions received widespread attention,but there is no attention to the feelings of gratitude and awe.So it is necessary to explore gratitude and awe emotion and its psychological effects.Yet,entertainment video is largely absent from mental health education despite its capacity of evoking powerful emotional experiences.College students' study and life is closely related to the entertainment video,as well as WeChat,which has advantage to transmit entertainment videos.Therefore,this research transmits entertainment video by WeChat to evoke positive emotion then to improve personal resources and mental health of college students,trying to to penetrate psychological health education to college students' daily life.This dissertation builds on media effects and emotion literatures to address two key questions concerning the viability and effectiveness of media-based positive psychology interventions.First,can specific types of videos content generate discrete positive emotions?Second,what is the influence of these discrete positive emotional experiences on the related psychological characteristics,such as personal resources and mental health?There are two parts of this dissertation;first part is the exploratory experiments to select the most suitable entertainment video clips that can evoke amusement(which has been confirmed that can be evoked by video clips,and has many physiological and psychological effects),gratitude and awe.According to the results of the data,we chose 15 entertainment video for each,including comedy,warmth and transcendent videos to evoke related emotions.The selected videos then were applied to the formal experiment.The second part of this dissertation aimed to explore the change of positive emotions and related psychological characteristics including psychological resources,social resources,and mental health.In a three-wave panel experiment,undergraduates(N = 246)from three school were randomly assigned into one of three experiment media treatment groups,where they watched one online video clip last 2-5 minutes,which sent by WeChat public platform,each Monday to Friday for a total of three consecutive weeks.psychological resources,social resources,mental health were measured before,10 days following,and after the intervention.Additionally,positive emotions were assessed each Friday.Results demonstrate that:1)comedy generated amusement,warmth videos generated gratitude,and transcendent video maintained a awe emotional state comparable to other two kind of videos;2)On the psychological resources,.all media conditions improved the empathy,mainly in the dimension table of empathy concern and personal grief,and modesty,after intervention;3)On the social resources,all media conditions increased the social support,especially friends support and other support,followed intervention and lasted after intervention;All media conditions increased prosocial behavior,especially altruism tendency and anonymous tendency,after intervention;4)On Mental health,Mental health levels were significantly improved followed intervention continued to after intervention,and life satisfaction enhanced after intervention,for all three media conditions.Concluded:1)Comedy videos evoke feeling of amusement;Warmth videos evoke feeling of gratitude;Transcendent videos evoke feeling of awe.So,it is reasonable to say that specific types of videos content generated discrete positive emotions.2)Comedy videos,warmth videos and transcendent videos have positive effect on psychological resources(including empathy and modesty),social resources(including social support and prosocial behavior),as well as mental health and life satisfaction. |
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