Det är tanken som räknas : - Ett svenskt TV-bolags representation av Tvångssyndrom / It's the thought that matters : - A Swedish Television Network's Representation of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.
- Authors
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 2024
- Source
- DiVA - Academic Archive On-line
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- Language
- Swedish
- License
- Green
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Abstract
Daily, people are using different forms of media outlets too gather information regarding topics relevant and or irrelevant for them. A lot of people are also having struggles with their mental health and for search of relief and understanding for their own or others condition consume media for this reason. This study was aimed to analyze how a Swedish television network, TV4, represented a medical condition and its symptoms in the mental health sphere, OCD. The method used for this was dividing the central aspects of the disease, obsessions and compulsions, to certain subtypes and thereafter analyzing video content from the television network’s website for streaming. The conclusions that were made was that the television network had a quite broad representation regarding the obsessions of OCD but had a smaller representation when it came to compulsions. The study also sought out to find whether the representation of OCD could be reinforcing current stereotypes of the condition which the results found that it indirectly did by showing compulsions regarding cleanliness, controlling and ordering behaviors to a higher degree than other compulsions.
