A profession that leads to well-being is rewarding and fulfilling, as it is a vital factor in ascertaining the happiness and purpose of one’s life. Information and communications technology has become an integral part of everyone’s life in contemporary times. Media professionals are engaged in using various types of digital and online media for their work-related needs. At many times, due to extensive work requirements, they carry their professional commitments outside the office hours. Due to their obsessive media consumption attitude, they lose out on spending time with their families and themselves. The purpose of this study was to examine the role of such media consumption attitude in relation to personal well-being. For this, 429 working professionals from different domains of media across the Indian subcontinent participated in our survey. The results revealed that media usage has a significant role in influencing personal well-being. At the same time, emotional ownership stood to be a mediator in the relationship between media consumption attitude and personal well-being. The findings pave the way to understand the professional and personal challenges faced by media professionals, while suggesting a possible roadmap for achieving a happy and purposeful life.

导致幸福的职业是回报和充实，因为它是确定一个人的幸福和人生目标的重要因素。信息和通信技术已成为当今每个人生活中不可或缺的一部分。媒体专业人员致力于使用各种类型的数字和在线媒体来满足与工作相关的需求。在很多时候，由于需要大量的工作，他们在办公时间以外会履行他们的专业承诺。由于他们对媒体消费的痴迷态度，他们失去了与家人和家人共度时光的机会。这项研究的目的是检验这种媒体消费态度与个人福祉的关系。为此，来自印度次大陆不同媒体领域的429名在职专业人员参加了我们的调查。结果表明，媒体使用在影响个人福祉方面具有重要作用。同时，情感所有权在媒体消费态度与个人福祉之间的关系中起着中介作用。这些发现为理解媒体专业人士面临的专业和个人挑战铺平了道路，同时为实现幸福和有目的的生活提出了可能的路线图。