Meme sharing “culture” and psychological well-being from a neuroscientific framework

  • Hernández Cuevas E
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Abstract

Los memes son replicaciones culturales que utilizan humor para volverse virales. Hay sistemas neuronales involucrados en el uso de redes sociales. Para explorar la relación entre el bienestar psicológico (BP) y compartir memes, administré un cuestionario en-línea que incluyó la Escala de BP, las subescalas de Regulación del Ánimo y de Escape, y memes de salud mental. Establecí cinco hipótesis las cuales fueron examinadas con una prueba t de muestras independientes, un ANOVA unidireccional y correlaciones de Pearson. Los resultados demuestran que las personas con menor PWB tienden a compartir memes de salud mental para liberar tensiones/distraerse de sus problemas.Memes are cultural replication units of social experiences that use humor to become viral. Neural systems are involved in social media use. To explore the relationship between psychological well-being (PWB) and meme-sharing behavior, I administered a questionnaire containing the PWB Scale, the Mood regulation and Escape subscales, and mental health-related memes to 249 Puerto Rican residents. I established five hypotheses that were tested with an Independent samples t-test, a one-way ANOVA, and Pearson’s correlation. The results demonstrate that individuals with lower PWB tend to share mental health memes to release tension/distract from problems.

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Hernández Cuevas, E. M. (2021). Meme sharing “culture” and psychological well-being from a neuroscientific framework. [In]Genios Revista de Investigación y Labor Creativa, 7(2), 1–21. https://doi.org/10.54114/ingeniosv7i2.14750

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