Global Adversities, the Media, and Mental Health

KESNER, Ladislav and Jiří HORÁČEK. Global Adversities, the Media, and Mental Health. FRONTIERS IN PSYCHIATRY. SWITZERLAND: FRONTIERS MEDIA SA, 2022, vol. 12, No 1, p. 1-6. ISSN 1664-0640. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.809239.

Basic information

• Original name: Global Adversities, the Media, and Mental Health
• Authors: KESNER, Ladislav (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Jiří HORÁČEK (203 Czech Republic).
• Edition: FRONTIERS IN PSYCHIATRY, SWITZERLAND, FRONTIERS MEDIA SA, 2022, 1664-0640.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Article in a journal
• Field of Study: 30215 Psychiatry
• Country of publisher: Switzerland
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• WWW: URL
• Impact factor: Impact factor: 4.700
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14210/22:00126950
• Organization unit: Faculty of Arts
• Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.809239
• UT WoS: 000748030900001
• Keywords (in Czech): nepřízeň; nejistota; mediální zprávy; stres; inflexibilita
• Keywords in English: adversity; uncertainty; media news; stress; inflexibility
• Tags: rivok
• Tags: International impact, Reviewed

Abstract

Currently, environmental and socio-political stressors have been accompanied by the spread of problematic psychological and behavioural tendencies, such as the growing polarisation of opinions and values, online radicalisation and extremism, deepening xenophobia and nationalism, the proliferation of irrational beliefs and conspiracy theories, and resistance to rational public policy measures. Here we argue that although they fall outside the scope of psychopathology, they nevertheless currently constitute a major challenge for psychiatry as a research domain and a clinical practise. To substantiate this claim, we outline the mechanisms by which media-transmitted stressors impact mental well-being and possibly psychopathology.