MUAWO – Media Use and Well-Being of Older Adults

Media use and well-being

• Effects of entertainment media on younger and older adults’ mental health and well-being

• Effects of online media on users’ social capital

• Media effects on moral intuitions and moral behavior

Experiences and effects of mediated environments

• Presence and embodiment in mediated environments

• Effects of computer games and virtual realities on emotional and cognitive processes

Entertainment research

• Entertainment media as a source of meaning

• Benefits of entertainment media in coping with mortality

• Entertainment motivations in different cultures

Methods and statistics

• Ambulatory assessment

• Experimental methods

• Operationalization of theoretical concepts in communication research (e.g., eudaimonic entertainment experiences, emotion regulation, emotional involvement)

• Psychophysiological, implicit, and behavioral measurement

• Measurement invariance tests between different cultures and different age groups

• CV and Publications (PDF, 171 KB)
• Publications on Researchgate