Psychological Research on Mental Health Changes of Interactive Web Novel Readers from "Audience" to "Co-creators"
Jianlu LiAbstract
Objective
Modern individuals are burdened with persistent social and life-related psychological pressure, which creates hollow mental states and undermines daily mental health. Interactive web novels build a distinctive interactive environment for users, and readers’ role shift brings obvious psychological changes. This study explores the psychological mechanism behind readers transforming from audience to co-creators, and analyzes how this transition eases psychological pressure and boosts overall mental health.
Subjects and Methods
This research takes regular readers of interactive web novels as participants. It combines questionnaire surveys and in-depth interviews to gather data on readers’ role cognition, variations in psychological pressure and mental state swings, and concludes the psychological laws of role transformation as well as its influence on personal mental health.
Results
The shift from audience to co-creator effectively reduces readers’ passive reading stress and daily psychological pressure. The resulting sense of participation and accomplishment improves negative mental states triggered by low mood, raises psychological satisfaction remarkably, and comprehensively elevates readers’ mental health.
Conclusions
Role transformation in interactive web novels delivers positive psychological adjustment effects. It relieves accumulated psychological pressure, fosters sound mental states and improves sub-health psychological conditions, offering a new perspective for researching public recreational behaviors and daily mental health management.
Corresponding Author
Jianlu Li, Huzhou College, Huzhou 313000, China.