The impact of ending version differences on tragedy viewing experience : Exploring downward comparison and meta-analysis of mechanism

• Main Authors: Chen, Yi-Cih, 陳憶慈
• Other Authors: Chen, Yen-Shen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2017
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/swtjup

碩士 === 國立交通大學 === 傳播研究所 === 105 === This research mainly focuses on why people can feel gratified when watching a sad film especially that ends miserably. Thus, this research delivers deeper insights in processes of how negative emotions transforming negative emotions to positive emotions during the good/bad end version of sad-film exposure. This article also integrates perceived realism, transportation, downward comparison, and meta-emotion, for the purpose of creating a theoretical model of viewing experience during tragedy exposure. In the bad end version (tragedy), the results from SEM (structural equation modeling ) analyses shows that perceived realism of the movie is a positive predictor of transportation. Then, transportation is a positive predictor of downward comparison and meta-appraisals. Meta-appraisals, in turn, is a positive predictor of meta-emotion (appreciation) of tragedy. On the other hand, in the bad end version, the results from SEM analyses shows that perceived realism of the movie is a positive predictor of transportation. Then, transportation is a positive predictor of appreciation. At last, other findings in this article, that is, the negative emotion (sadness) can not be transformed into a positive meta-emotion. Because both negative and positive emotion are independently on the different emotional dimension.