Primary data on the study "The relationship between horror film preference and resilience"

Research Questions/Hypotheses:

H1: It is hypothesized that there is a significant positive relationship between sense of coherence and horror film preference.

Research Design:

Fully standardised survey instrument (provides question formulation and answer options); single measurement

Measurement Instruments/Apparatus:

The participants were asked to complete two questionnaires. The first was the Sense of Coherence Scale Leipzig Short Form (Schumacher et al., 2000), which comprises 9 items. These items represent the three sub-components of the sense of coherence “comprehensibility”,”manageability” and “meaningfulness” and are answered on a seven-point scale. The names of the poles of the response scale vary depending on the formulation of the items as questions or incomplete sentences.
The second questionnaire was used to survey film genre preference. This questionnaire was adapted from the questionnaire by Scrivner et al.(2021). It asked about the preference for 6 film genres and, as an additional question, about general media consumption. The answer was given on a seven-point Likert scale from 1 (very rarely or never) to 7 (very often).

Data Collection Method:

Survey in the absence of an investigator

• online survey

Population:

Adults from German-speaking countries

Survey Time Period:

Survey in the 4th quarter of the year 2021

Sample:

Convenience Sample

Gender Distribution:

37,6 % female participants
60,8 % male participants

Age Distribution: 17-89 years

Spatial Coverage (Country/Region/City): Germany; Austria; Switzerland/-/-

Subject Recruitment:

The questionnaire was distributed to test persons via link or QR code. This was done via a circular email at Helmut Schmidt University /University of the Federal Armed Forces and a distribution in the first author’s own social environment with the request to forward the link. In addition, social media such as Instagram and Reddit were used. Reddit is a collective website for forums (subreddits). The link was shared via a post on the first author’s own Instagram page. Here, too, a request was made to forward the questionnaire to the wider community. On Reddit, the German subreddits r/Filme and r/de were contacted to ask for permission to post the link. The subreddit r/de could not agree to this due to internal policies, but r/Filme allowed the post. Here, too, a request for canvassing in the wider community had been written. In addition, three 25 euro Amazon vouchers were raffled off to all participants who wanted them.

Sample Size:

362 participants

Return/Drop Out:

Six additional participants had to be excluded from the data set. These were of an age for which no standardisation of the Sense of Coherence Scale was available.