Teoria da gestão do humor: uma revisão de literatura

Abstract

The article proposes to perform a systematic review of the world scientific literature on the studies of Mood Management Theory. For the search of the articles, twenty electronic databases were considered, the studies found were submitted to exclusion criteria, the final bank resulted in twenty-five studies, published between 1989 and 2022. It was possible to evidence that the theme has low worldwide academic production, and the countries that most publish on the subject are the USA followed by Germany. To answer the main question of the study, the IRAMUTEC software was used, through the CHD analysis it was verified how the theory has been used, from the four classes "Scientific Research", "Mood Management", "Self Exposure to Media", "Entertainment Content". As far as psychology is concerned, mood management theory is important because it allows us to study the influence that media exposure has on mood alteration, thus it is necessary to understand mood as a condition of emotions that is unstable or momentary.