UNDERTALE: Determination & Personal Growth | Screen Therapy & Media Psychology

#undertale #mentalhealth #psychology #gaming Thanks for watching Undertale: Determination & Personal Growth | Screen Therapy! I'm so glad to be back from a 3 month hiatus with this video about Undertale! I just played it this winter and I found that it was a truly profound game that inspires meaningful emotional experiences that can help us fortify our emotional well-being. Using Positive Media Psychology research I wanted to help explain why Undertale has been called a "life-changing" game and how it provokes such powerful emotions from us. Undertale creates a personally relevant and Eudaimonic play experience that helps us puzzle through our moral uncertainties and participate in a story of moral beauty, selflessness, altruism, and connectedness. This game is one of the few titles I've played that can provoke the very rare, but very powerful transcendent emotion of Elevation and all of its amazing benefits. Playing Undertale mindfully could teach us important emotional intelligence skills that can benefits our real life relationships with others and ourselves! Timestamp Chapters: 00:00 Introduction & What is Positive Media Psych? 01:44 The Moment I Understood.... 05:39 The Secret Ingredient: 1 Human Soul 09:33 How Undertale Affects Us: Meaningful Media 12:13 Everything Means Something: Moral Engagement 16:23 "Determination" & Growth: Becoming a Better Person 20:10 Compassion over Fear 24:42 How Undertale Heals: Comfort & Forgiveness 27:31 That Mysterious Emotion We All Felt: Elevation 30:52 Conclusion Sources: Oliver, M.B., Dale, K.R., Janicke-Bowles, S.H., Raney, A.(2020). Introduction to Positive Media Psychology. "What is Positive Media Psychology?", "Meaningful Entertainment". United States: Taylor & Francis. Reinecke, L., Oliver, M.B. (2017) Media Use and Well Being: Status Quo and Open Questions. The Routledge Handbook of Media Use and Well-Being. Routledge. Nabi, R. L., Prestin, A. (2017) The Tie That Binds: Reflecting on Emotion's Role in Relationship Between Media Use and Subjective Well-Being. Video Games and Well-Being: Press Start. (2019) "Press reset", Hughes, C. Germany, Springer International Publishing. Neff, K. D. (2011). Self-compassion, self-esteem, and well-being. Social and personality psychology compass, 5(1), 1-12. Grayson, Nathan. (2015) "Undertale: The Kotaku Review" Kotaku.com Bartsch A., & Oliver, M.B. (2016) Appreciation of Meaningful Entertainment Experiences and Eudaimonic Wellbeing." The Routledge Handbook of Media Use and Well-Being. Routledge. Huta, V. (2017). An overview of hedonic and eudaimonic well-being concepts. Reer, F., & Quandt, T. (2020). Digital Games and Well-Being: An Overview. Video Games and Well-being, 1-21. Music: Unertale OST - Toby Fox Megalovania EP (Track 5: LoFi Megalovania) - Magnetium Outro/Screen Therapy Theme: Never Really Gone by Stuart Bateman Stuart Bateman -   / stuartbateman     / stuartebateman   ----------------------- Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, commenting, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favour of fair use.