Music, TV, films, video games, e-books, digital magazines, and audiobooks had similar impacts on people’s perceived life satisfaction.
Scientists wondered how this change in media use impacts well-being. Niklas Johannes, a postdoctoral researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute, and his colleagues, were curious about whether different forms of traditional media
Although the study was relatively small, the effects they did see were pretty uniform across the different types of traditional media. “The effect of playing video games wasn’t really that different from the effect of reading books,” Johannes says. Those who reported engaging with music, TV, films, and video games appeared to feel slightly worse in the short-term than those who did not. But, Johannes notes that these are associations, so they don’t show the direction of the effect. It’s a classic case of correlation versus causation: It could be that listening to music makes you feel worse, or it could be that when you feel bad, you want to listen to music to pick yourself up.
As a takeaway, Johannes says that this view that traditional media are better for us than something like social media is really not warranted. “Our findings and measures are relatively coarse,” he says, “but if [the more traditional media] were truly so great for us, then you would be able to pick something up. And we weren’t able to pick anything up other than super tiny effects.”
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