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      Nostalgia, Social Media, and Subjective Wellbeing: The Dualistic and Conditional Effects of Nostalgia During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

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      Health communication
      Informa UK Limited

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          Drastic lifestyle changes due to the COVID-19 pandemic have caused many people to undergo nostalgic longing for the past. Drawing on the regulatory model of nostalgia, we built a research model to examine the dualistic effects of nostalgia on subjective wellbeing, using self-continuity as a mediator and social media use as a moderator. The findings from an online survey (N = 373) indicated that when nostalgia is associated with an enhanced sense of self-continuity, it has a positive indirect effect on subjective wellbeing. In contrast, when not mediated by such a restorative function, nostalgia has a direct negative impact on subjective wellbeing. Both of these (positive) indirect and (negative) direct effects were moderated by social media usage, suggesting that social media use is a crucial communication-related boundary condition that reinforces or mitigates the dualistic effects of nostalgia. This study offers contributions to the literature by uncovering distinct pathways through which nostalgia carries differing implications for subjective wellbeing in times of crisis, as well as by identifying social media use as a boundary condition under which such dualistic roles of nostalgia manifest.

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          Journal
          Health Commun
          Health communication
          Informa UK Limited
          1532-7027
          1041-0236
          Mar 2024
          : 39
          : 3
          Affiliations
          [1 ] Department of Communications and New Media, National University of Singapore.
          [2 ] School of Journalism and Communication, Minzu University of China.
          [3 ] School of Journalism and Communication, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
          Article
          10.1080/10410236.2023.2170723
          36727655
          c73df8cf-5b4d-4fe3-b042-5eb0b6ca4880
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