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Details for article 63 of 203 found articles
| Title: |
Children's Television Experience in Two Cultures |
| Author: |
Smith, Robert J. Schutte, Nicola S. |
| Appeared in: |
Educational psychology |
| Paging: | Volume 2 (1982) nr. 2 pages 137-146 |
| Year: |
1982 |
| Contents: |
Research concerning children and television has concentrated more on their behaviour following viewing than on their personal experiences of this medium and the subjects are commonly American children from a distinctive television milieu. This study investigated first-person reports of children from two rather different television cultures—US and West German (FRG). It was hypothesised that Americans would be more pro-television, and thereby more dependent on television, more accepting of programmed violence and more fantasy-involved in programme content; while experiencing less parental control/influence than West Germans. A sample of 93 FRG and 87 US children aged 10-12 responded to a television-viewing questionnaire of 34 items. The American children were significantly more pro-television than the West Germans, and this was reflected in higher dependency and lower parental control scores. Responses to television fantasy and violence proved ambiguous, and no significant programme character preference differences were found. A principal components analysis of the American scores supported the intuitive item groupings. |
| Publisher: |
Routledge |
| Source file: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
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