Our aim was to examine the association between interest in anime and manga and their relationship with (mental) health (in terms of depressive symptoms, anxiety symptoms, health-related quality of life, symptoms of hikikomori), social disconnectedness (in terms of preference for solitude, loneliness...
This corresponds to what psychologists call the “just world hypothesis.” As per Melvin Lerner’s (1980) definition in his seminal study of this topic, “the “belief in a just world” is an attempt to capture in a phrase one of the ways, if not the way, that people come to terms ...