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Why people listen: Motivations and outcomes of podcast listening
The aim of this preregistered study was to identify dispositional predictors of podcast listening and examine the associations between aspects of podcast listening, dispositional predictors, and psychological outcomes. Three hundred and six adults from a range of countries completed an online questi...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8985929/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35385493 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0265806 |
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description | The aim of this preregistered study was to identify dispositional predictors of podcast listening and examine the associations between aspects of podcast listening, dispositional predictors, and psychological outcomes. Three hundred and six adults from a range of countries completed an online questionnaire that assessed individual difference predictors (the Big Five personality factors, curiosity, need for cognition, need to belong, age, and gender), aspects of podcast listening (amount, format, setting, device, and social aspects), and potential outcomes (autonomy, competence, relatedness, meaning, mindfulness, and smartphone addiction). As predicted, openness to experience, interest-based curiosity, and need for cognition positively predicted podcast listening. Contrary to predictions, need to belong negatively predicted podcast listening, and time spent listening to podcasts was not associated with autonomy, competence, relatedness, meaning, mindfulness, or smartphone addiction. However, certain aspects of podcast listening (e.g., parasocial relationships and social engagement) were related to positive outcomes and to our predictor variables. Furthermore, neuroticism negatively predicted podcast listening. Overall, the findings support the idea that informational motives can play a role in podcast listening, and that some aspects of listening are associated with positive outcomes. |
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spelling | pubmed-89859292022-04-07 Why people listen: Motivations and outcomes of podcast listening Tobin, Stephanie J. Guadagno, Rosanna E. PLoS One Research Article The aim of this preregistered study was to identify dispositional predictors of podcast listening and examine the associations between aspects of podcast listening, dispositional predictors, and psychological outcomes. Three hundred and six adults from a range of countries completed an online questionnaire that assessed individual difference predictors (the Big Five personality factors, curiosity, need for cognition, need to belong, age, and gender), aspects of podcast listening (amount, format, setting, device, and social aspects), and potential outcomes (autonomy, competence, relatedness, meaning, mindfulness, and smartphone addiction). As predicted, openness to experience, interest-based curiosity, and need for cognition positively predicted podcast listening. Contrary to predictions, need to belong negatively predicted podcast listening, and time spent listening to podcasts was not associated with autonomy, competence, relatedness, meaning, mindfulness, or smartphone addiction. However, certain aspects of podcast listening (e.g., parasocial relationships and social engagement) were related to positive outcomes and to our predictor variables. Furthermore, neuroticism negatively predicted podcast listening. Overall, the findings support the idea that informational motives can play a role in podcast listening, and that some aspects of listening are associated with positive outcomes. Public Library of Science 2022-04-06 /pmc/articles/PMC8985929/ /pubmed/35385493 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0265806 Text en © 2022 Tobin, Guadagno https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Tobin, Stephanie J. Guadagno, Rosanna E. Why people listen: Motivations and outcomes of podcast listening |
title | Why people listen: Motivations and outcomes of podcast listening |
title_full | Why people listen: Motivations and outcomes of podcast listening |
title_fullStr | Why people listen: Motivations and outcomes of podcast listening |
title_full_unstemmed | Why people listen: Motivations and outcomes of podcast listening |
title_short | Why people listen: Motivations and outcomes of podcast listening |
title_sort | why people listen: motivations and outcomes of podcast listening |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8985929/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35385493 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0265806 |
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