Während der US-Präsidentschaftswahl 2024 ergab eine aktuelle Studie, dass das Lesen oder Ansehen negativer politischer Medien größere Angst und geringeres Arbeitsengagement vorhersagte, wohingegen positive politische Inhalte mehr Hoffnung und Hilfsbereitschaft am Arbeitsplatz vorhersagten.
Doomscrolling political news during your downtime predicts reduced engagement at work
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I think that makes sense. It’s hard to find meaning in your work when it feels like the federal government is collapsing and the US is in decline. I mean, it is, but you really feel it when you look around at what’s going on.
When everything is getting more expensive, jobs are stalling, and food is becoming concerning to eat as of late it can really impact work engagement… of course you can always lie to yourself about how everything is fine to get through the work day a little easier…
Hard to find the motivation to work hard when you understand how fucked everything is.
That’s interesting. There is absolutely nothing that could make me positively invested in a job.
Job performance is the most dystopian possible consequence metric, and tone is the most dystopian thing to care about in news reporting.
Was this report commissioned by billionaires, to decide how to run the media for maximum return on capital investment?
Where’s this „positive political content“? Is it drug induced?
Our country is going down the drain faster than a corn kernal through intestines after it was washed down with laxatives, and they needed to report that we’re not feeling invested in working? Do they also want to tell us how dead people don’t have a pulse?