Animal Crossing: New Leaf For Mental Health & Well-Being | Screen Therapy
Channel: Screen Therapy
Date: 2019-01-28

How does Animal Crossing help our mental health and well-being? Using Media Psychology research, let's look at the science of how Animal Crossing makes us feel better.

This video is about the Animal Crossing series, however the footage is of Animal Crossing New Leaf simply because that's the game I have the most experience with (I've clocked nearly 300 hours in it). But the effects discussed in the research should ring true for all other AC titles, as well!

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Game Therapy: Animal Crossing & Anxiety:
https://screentherapyblog.wordpress.com/2017/10/04/game-therapy-animal-crossing-anxiety/ 
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Games In Order of Appearance:

Animal Crossing New Leaf: Welcome Amiibo (2012)
Call of Duty: WWII (2017)

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Sources in Order:

Fig. A: "Animal Crossing Gender and Age trends of the Registrants", Club Nintendo (Japan)

Reinecke, L., & Eden, A. (2017). Media use and recreation: Media-induced recovery as a link between media exposure and well-being. In L. Reinecke & M.B. Oliver (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of media use and well-being: (pp. 110). New York: Routledge. 

Reinecke, Leonard & Klatt, Jennifer & Krämer, Nicole. (2011). Entertaining Media Use and the Satisfaction of Recovery Needs: Recovery Outcomes Associated With the Use of Interactive and Noninteractive Entertaining Media. Media Psychology. 14. 192-215. 10.1080/15213269.2011.573466. . 

Hartman, T. (2013). Media entertainment as a result of recreation and psychological growth. In E. Scharrer (Ed.) Media effects/media psychology, Vol. 5. Ther international Encyclopedia of Media Studies (pp.170-188). Boston, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.. 

"Interviews with Directors of Animal Crossing": Shmuplations, "http://shmuplations.com/animalcrossing/"

Robinson, Melissa & Knobloch-Westerwick, Silvia. (2017). Mood management through selective media use for health and well being. The Routledge handbook of media use and well-being: (pp. 66). New York: Routledge. 

"The Power of Routines in Your Mental Health" by Mariana Plata, https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-gen-y-psy/
201810/the-power-routines-in-your-mental-health

Mirror, Mirror on my Facebook Wall: Effects of Exposure to Facebook on Self-Esteem Amy L. Gonzales, Jeffrey T. Hancock Published Online:17 Feb 2011https://doi.org/10.1089/cyber.2009.0411

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Music in Order:

Animal Crossing New Leaf (Main Theme) - Manaka Kataoka and Atsuko Asahi
5PM (Fan Made) – Animal Crossing: Switch Music - by Jez
8PM (Fan Made) – Animal Crossing: Switch Music - by Jez

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