Aggressive and Prosocial Television Programs and the Natural Behavior of Preschool Children

Friedrich, Lynette K.; Stein, Aletha Huston

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“…32 The monthly mailings included a program guide tailored to the family' s available channels with recommended educational and prosocial television shows and schedules and a newsletter with tips and reinforcement. The criteria for recommended programming were based on previous research regarding the positive benefits of educational and prosocial media for young children [33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42] and were as follows: a TV Guidelines rating of TV-Y, being rated high on educational and/or prosocial value by CommonSenseMedia.org, and being currently available on network or cable television. In creating our final list, we sought to include programming that featured a diversity of gender, race, ethnicity, and culture and balance in terms of topical focus.…”

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The Impact of a Healthy Media Use Intervention on Sleep in Preschool Children

Garrison

Christakis

2012

Pediatrics

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WHAT'S KNOWN ON THIS SUBJECT: Although observational studies have consistently reported an association between media use and child sleep problems, it is unclear whether the relationship is causal or if an intervention targeting healthy media use can improve sleep in preschool-aged children. WHAT THIS STUDY ADDS:This study demonstrates that a healthy media use intervention can improve child sleep outcomes and adds evidence that the relationship between media and sleep in preschool-aged children is indeed causal in nature. abstract BACKGROUND: Although observational studies have consistently reported an association between media use and child sleep problems, it is unclear whether the relationship is causal or if an intervention targeting healthy media use can improve sleep in preschool-aged children. METHODS:We conducted a randomized controlled trial of a healthy media use intervention in families of children aged 3 to 5 years. The intervention encouraged families to replace violent or ageinappropriate media content with quality educational and prosocial content, through an initial home visit and follow-up telephone calls over 6 months. Sleep measures were derived from the Child Sleep Habits Questionnaire and were collected at 6, 12, and 18 months after baseline; repeated-measures regression analyses were used. RESULTS:Among the 565 children analyzed, the most common sleep problem was delayed sleep-onset latency (38%). Children in the intervention group had significantly lower odds of "any sleep problem" at follow-up in the repeated-measures analysis (odds ratio = 0.36; 95% confidence interval: 0.16 to 0.83), with a trend toward a decrease in intervention effect over time (P = .07). Although there was no significant effect modification detected by baseline sleep or behavior problems, gender, or low-income status, there was a trend (P = .096) toward an increased effect among those with high levels of violence exposure at baseline. CONCLUSIONS:The significant effects of a healthy media use intervention on child sleep problems in the context of a randomized controlled trial suggest that the previously reported relationship between media use and child sleep problems is indeed causal in nature. Pediatrics 2012;130:492-499 AUTHORS:

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The Impact of a Healthy Media Use Intervention on Sleep in Preschool Children

Garrison

Christakis

2012

Pediatrics

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“…Existing research indicates that one of these risk factors may be a lower threshold for a media-violence-induced activation of aggressive behavior. Studies of violent television, film, and video games (e.g., 7,26,27,42,69) have found that highly aggressive individuals show greater effects (on aggressive behavior, attitudes, emotions, and beliefs) of exposure to media violence than their relatively less aggressive counterparts. Children at the greatest risk to become very aggressive are those who both were initially aggressive and watched relatively high amounts of TV violence (38,39).…”

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The Role of Media Violence in Violent Behavior

Huesmann

Taylor

2006

Annu. Rev. Public Health

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Media violence poses a threat to public health inasmuch as it leads to an increase in real-world violence and aggression. Research shows that fictional television and film violence contribute to both a short-term and a long-term increase in aggression and violence in young viewers. Television news violence also contributes to increased violence, principally in the form of imitative suicides and acts of aggression. Video games are clearly capable of producing an increase in aggression and violence in the short term, although no long-term longitudinal studies capable of demonstrating long-term effects have been conducted. The relationship between media violence and real-world violence and aggression is moderated by the nature of the media content and characteristics of and social influences on the individual exposed to that content. Still, the average overall size of the effect is large enough to place it in the category of known threats to public health.

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“…Şiddet esas itibariyle uygulayan özneler ve uygulanma amacı göz önünde bulundurulduğu zaman, kolektif ve bireysel olmak üzere iki kategoriye 6 Bu konuyla ilgili olarak yapılmış olan farklı araştırmalar için bkz. (Friedrich, 1973;Huesmann/Eron, 1986;Huesmann/Miller, 1994, Children Now, 1999.…”

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Basinin Şi̇ddeti̇: Si̇yasal Gösteri̇lerde “Poli̇se Taş Atan Çocuklar” Örneği̇

Durna¹,

Kubilay²

2010

Ankara Üniversitesi SBF Dergisi

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ÖzetBu çalışmada, 15 Şubat 2006 tarihinde Cizre'de Abdullah Öcalan'ın yakalanmasının yıldönümü nedeniyle yapılan eylemlerde, çocukların polise taş atması ile medyada yaygınlaşan "polise taş atan çocuklar" klişesi, üç tema ve altı örnek olay düzleminde çözümlenmiştir. Çözümleme için, "şiddet mağduru çocuk", "eylemlerde şiddete bulaşmış çocuk", "devletin önleyici tedbirlerinin muhatabı olarak çocuk" başlıklı temalar oluşturulmuştur. Oluşturulan temalar ve bu temalar için seçilen örnek olayların sunum biçimini çözümlemek üzere ulusal basından Akşam, Cumhuriyet, Hürriyet, Ortadoğu, Taraf ve Yeni Şafak gazeteleri belirlenmiştir. Çalışmada söz konusu gazetelerin olaylara ilişkin yaptıkları haberler, Teun Van Dijk'in söylem çözümlemesi yöntemi ile analiz edilmiştir. Van Dijk'in söylem çözümlemesine göre haber metinleri mikro ve makro olmak üzere iki düzeyde çözümlenebilir. Makro çözümlemede haberin tematik ve şematik yapısına odaklanılır. Mikro çözümlemede ise sözcük seçimleri, cümle yapıları, cümleler arasında kurulan nedensellik ilişkileri ile retorik incelenir. Bu çalışma aynı zamanda, Türk medyasında suçla bitişik olarak anılan çocuk haberlerinde, çocuk haklarına duyarlı bir haberciliğin yapılıp yapılmadığına odaklanmakta; çocuk haklarına duyarlı bir haberciliğin nasıl yapılabileceğine dair önerilerde de bulunmaktadır.Anahtar Kelimeler: Terör, basın, suçlu çocuk, devlet şiddeti, Kürt sorunu. Violence of the Press: The Case of "Stone-Throwing Children" in Political Demonstrations AbstractIn this study, "stone-throwing children" cliche which has become widespread in the media due to the demonstrations held in Cizre on 15th February 2006 on the anniversary of capture of Abdullah Öcalan is analysed in the base of three themes and six sample cases. In the study, "child as victims of violence", "child as the perpetrator of violence" and "child as interlocutor of preventive measures of the state" are designated as the themes for analysis. In order to examine these themes and sample cases, six daily newspapers, Akşam, Cumhuriyet, Hürriyet, Ortadoğu, Taraf and Yeni Şafak are chosen from the national press. The news texts on these sample cases in the dailies mentioned above are analysed in line with Teun van Dijk's method of discourse analysis. In the method of van Dijk, news texts can be examined at two levels called micro and macro. While the thematic and the schematic structures of news texts are focused at the macro level, lexical choices, syntax, local coherence and rhetoric are analysed at the micro one. This study also focuses on whether actual journalism practises are sensitive to children's rights in news texts on children commonly associated with crime in Turkish media. In addition to this, the study attempts to make suggestions as to how journalism practises can be sensitive to children's rights.

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Aggressive and Prosocial Television Programs and the Natural Behavior of Preschool Children

Cited by 259 publications

References 27 publications

The Impact of a Healthy Media Use Intervention on Sleep in Preschool Children

The Impact of a Healthy Media Use Intervention on Sleep in Preschool Children

The Role of Media Violence in Violent Behavior

Basinin Şi̇ddeti̇: Si̇yasal Gösteri̇lerde “Poli̇se Taş Atan Çocuklar” Örneği̇

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