... In the case of PSR, research exploring how individuals are able to fulfill socio-emotional needs by engaging with media, offers insight on PSR as a moderator of negative feelings. For example, individuals watch their favored television programs when feeling lonely, and evoking these programs buffer against drops in self-esteem, bad moods, and rejection feelings (Derrick, Gabriel, & Hugenberg, 2009). Other studies suggest that through PSR individuals fulfill the need to belong (Gardner, Pickett, & Knowles, 2005), increase life satisfaction and positive mood (Gabriel & Young, 2011), experience movement to the ideal self (Derrick, Gabriel, & Tippin, 2008), moderate negative body images in both women (Young, Gabriel, & Sechrist, 2012) and men (Young, Gabriel, & Hollar, 2013), and restore affect (Lakey, Cooper, Cronin, & Whitaker, 2014). ...