Portrayals of threatened needs and human virtue

A review of the content of eudaimonic entertainment

Dados Bibliográficos

ID16959685
AutoresAnneke De Graaf (0000-0003-2906-7498, Radboud University Nijmegen, autor correspondente), Enny Das (0000-0002-0367-6757, Radboud University Nijmegen)
Ano2023
Volume47
Fascículo1
Páginas55-83
Data de publicação2023-01-02
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAnnals of the International Communication Association (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2380-8977 • E-ISSN: 2380-8985
EditoraOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1080/23808985.2022.2130811
OpenAlexW4303433031
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10
Referências citadas97

The present review examines whether commonalities and differences can be detected in the content of eudaimonic entertainment. We focused on two features: the fundamental human needs that were threatened, and the specific virtues that were portrayed. The results showed that the examined materials often included a combination of portrayals of threats to the fundamental human needs for safety, health and relatedness, and portrayals of the virtue of humanity, like love and kindness. Two subcategories could be distinguished in the materials, one in which the focus is on the portrayal of virtue as an answer to threatened needs, and one in which the focus is on the portrayal of threatened needs in which characters struggle even though they also have virtue

Aesthetics · Content analysis · Entertainment · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Eudaimonia · Humanity · Kindness · Political science · Positive psychology · Social science · Sociology · Threatened species · Virtue · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion · Law · Media Influence and Health · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Ecology