Who benefits from online art viewing, and how
- Author(s)
- MacKenzie D. Trupp, Giacomo Bignardi, Eva Specker, Edward A. Vessel, Matthew Pelowski
- Abstract
When experienced in-person, engagement with art has been associated with positive outcomes in well-being and mental health. However, especially in the last decade, art viewing, cultural engagement, and even ‘trips’ to museums have begun to take place online, via computers, smartphones, tablets, or in virtual reality. Similarly, to what has been reported for in-person visits, online art engagements—easily accessible from personal devices—have also been associated to well-being impacts. However, a broader understanding of for whom and how online-delivered art might have well-being impacts is still lacking. In the present study, we used a Monet interactive art exhibition from Google Arts and Culture to deepen our understanding of the role of pleasure, meaning, and individual differences in the responsiveness to art. Beyond replicating the previous group-level effects, we confirmed our pre-registered hypothesis that trait-level inter-individual differences in aesthetic responsiveness predict some of the benefits that online art viewing has on well-being and further that such inter-individual differences at the trait level were mediated by subjective experiences of pleasure and especially meaningfulness felt during the online-art intervention. The role that participants' experiences play as a possible mechanism during art interventions is discussed in light of recent theoretical models.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology, Vienna Cognitive Science Hub
- External organisation(s)
- Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck School of Cognition, Max-Planck-Institut für empirische Ästhetik
- Journal
- Computers in Human Behavior
- Volume
- 145
- ISSN
- 0747-5632
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2023.107764
- Publication date
- 08-2023
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 501001 General psychology, 604004 Fine arts, 303026 Public health
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous), Human-Computer Interaction, Psychology(all)
- Sustainable Development Goals
- SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
- Portal url
- https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/en/publications/who-benefits-from-online-art-viewing-and-how(f10356a8-ae0c-4c56-9d92-c03e97732af1).html