A Study of Emotional Consumption Patterns in Emotionally Observational Reality TV Shows

Abstract

In recent years, emotional observation reality shows have seen explosive growth, and these programmes not only focus on emotional topics such as love and marriage, but also involve family relationships, intergenerational communication and other dimensions, providing viewers with a rich observation perspective. The factors that influence the emotional consumption patterns of such programmes include narrative structure, guest selection, programme content, and the audience itself. Against the background of ubiquitous consumerist forms and selections, appropriate emotional consumption pushes audiences to satisfy their emotional needs and realise their self-worth, and also creates a benign interactive space in society, while excessive emotional consumption leads to psychological distortion of the audience, which in turn produces adverse effects. This paper will analyse the emotional consumption mode of emotional observation reality TV shows to enlighten the public with a multi-dimensional perspective to think about and eliminate the operation mechanism of emotional consumption and the creative boundaries of variety shows.