Parents of children (age 2-12) participated in this study examining the influence of children's television exposure on parent-reported child-initiated purchase requests and coercive behaviors and their subsequent effect on overall parental stress, a factor associated with reduced well-being. Using a general family systems framework, and Family Communication Patterns (FCP), we also examined how these consumer oriented communication patterns could help or harm family interactions and ultimately, parent stress. Results indicated that increased child television exposure was associated with increased child-purchase initiations and consumer related coercive behavior. Additionally, child coercive behavior and child purchase initiation was then associated with increased parental stress, which has a well-documented impact on both physical and emotional parent well-being. Lastly, increased collaborative communication had an exacerbating direct effect on parent stress; whereas, parents who engaged in more control oriented and advertising communication had children who were more likely to ask for more products and exhibit more coercive behaviors. Finally, the link between television exposure and coercive behavior was weaker in homes where parents engaged in more advertising focused communication. Thus, advertising can directly and indirectly influence parent stress; however, effects can be mitigated through constructive parental communication with children.
Research on children, media, and moral development focuses on the negative effects of media on children's moral judgments and reasoning as well as potential positive impacts of prosocial portrayals. This review utilizes moral foundations theory to group and summarize the research. Overall, children's existing moral developmental stage affects how they interpret and make sense of moral messages. In addition, problematic media content has been shown to have a negative influence on several moral domains, most notably harm/care as well as fairness/cheating. Importantly, children's perspective‐taking abilities act as an important mediator between exposure to moral media and outcomes such as sympathy and harm. Thus, evidence exists for the transactional relationship between moral media and moral development, a point that is supported by the media influences on moral intuitions and development (MIMIAD) model.
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