Older Adults’ Television Viewing from a Life-Span Perspective: Past Research and Future Challenges

Goot, M.J. van der; Beentjes, J.W.J.; Selm, Martine van

doi:10.1080/23808985.2006.11679063

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“…A third reason for challenging the compensation emphasis is that communication research does not provide conclusive empirical evidence for the idea of television as compensation (Van der Goot et al, 2006). First, there is no clear empirical support for the idea that television viewing increases in response to a decrease in other activities.…”

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“…This life-span perspective, as advanced by Baltes (1987), puts forth the idea that development is multi-directional and assumes that gains and losses jointly occur over the entire life-span. This body of research implies that a focus on losses does not provide an adequate understanding of ageing, because it leads to an underestimation of potential development in later life, and suggests that older adults' television viewing should be seen in the context of both gains and losses that people experience in their lives (Van der Goot et al, 2006).…”

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“…Older adults watch more television than younger adults (e.g., Harwood, 2007, p. 179;Mares and Woodard, 2006;Van der Goot, Beentjes, and Van Selm, 2006). Regarding their content preferences, studies have shown that they watch more news (e.g., Mares and Woodard, 2006;Mares and Sun, 2010) and quiz shows (e.g., Gunter, Sancho-Aldridge, and Winstone, 1994) than younger people, and that they have a heightened preference for "gentle" content (e.g., Dhoest, 2007;Gauntlett and Hill, 1999).…”

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“…In attempts to make sense of such age differences in television viewing behaviour, the emphasis has been on old age as a life stage characterized by losses in which people use television as compensation for decreased activities (Östlund, 2010;Van der Goot et al, 2006). It has been suggested that television viewing is a substitute for previous activities such as work, that it serves social functions that were previously fulfilled by interpersonal communication, and that older adults watch news and information because they miss the information that they previously received through work and other social contacts (e.g., Bliese, 1986;Chory-Assad and Yanen, 2005;Doolittle, 1979;Graney, 1974Graney, , 1975Kubey, 1980;Lim andKim, 2011, Schramm, 1969).…”

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Older adults' television viewing as part of selection and compensation strategies van der Goot, M.J.; Beentjes, J.W.J.; van Selm, M. General rightsIt is not permitted to download or to forward/distribute the text or part of it without the consent of the author(s) and/or copyright holder(s), other than for strictly personal, individual use, unless the work is under an open content license (like Creative Commons). Disclaimer/Complaints regulationsIf you believe that digital publication of certain material infringes any of your rights or (privacy) interests, please let the Library know, stating your reasons. In case of a legitimate complaint, the Library will make the material inaccessible and/or remove it from the website. Please Ask the Library: http://uba.uva.nl/en/contact, or a letter to: Library of the University of Amsterdam, Secretariat, Singel 425, 1012 WP Amsterdam, The Netherlands. You will be contacted as soon as possible. Older Adults' Television Viewing as Part of Selection and Compensation StrategiesAbstract A large share of the available literature on television and ageing depicts old age as a life stage characterized by losses in which people use television as a substitute for decreased activities. The aim of the present study is to investigate how television viewing is part of both selection and compensation strategies. Based on a qualitative interview study among a diverse sample of older adults (N = 86, aged 65-92 years), we found three ways in which television viewing is part of selection strategies and three ways in which it is part of compensation strategies. In contrast to the focus on compensation in previous research, we found that selection strategies appear to provide a better characterization of older people's television viewing than compensation strategies. Moreover, particular television viewing behaviour does not automatically signal whether television viewing is part of selection or compensation strategies.

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“…People with work obligations outside the family home watch less television and homemakers are obviously in a situation where they can watch more (Huysmans et al, 2004;Kraaykamp et al, 2007). Furthermore, older people spend more time watching television than middle aged and younger people (Abrahamsson, Partners and TV exposure 6 1994;Huysmans et al, 2004; Mares and Woodard, 2006;Moy et al, 1999;Van der Goot, Beentjes, and Van Selm, 2006). And finally, the example set by someone's parents in his/her youth is positively related to the amount of television use later in life (Kraaykamp, 2001).…”

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Partners' influence on each other's television exposure: Dominance or symmetry?

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In this study we analyzed to what extent partners who share the same household affect each other's exposure to television. With the use of linear structural equation modeling we analyzed data from a large scale representative survey in The Netherlands (n 697 couples).Results indicate that both men and women influence their partner's exposure to television.When people spend much time watching television, their partners are also likely to spend a lot of time in front of the television. These influences on each other's exposure were of equal magnitude for both men and women. Finally, we found a strong socialization effect of parental viewing in the family of origin.Keywords: media use, exposure to television, partners' influence, socialization effect, parental garden may be all you want to do after a hard day's work, but your neighbor may force you to come out of your chair and talk to him by just popping his head over the hedge and starting a conversation. Or worse, he could even have you help him push his broken car up his driveway. We know from Berger and Luckmann's (1966/1991) insight in the construction of social reality that your neighbor does not even have to pop his head over the hedge, or even be at home, to make you do things you would rather not do, such as mowing your lawn, because you vicariously observe and judge yourself for your neighbor. With television, this is no different. For instance, many people feel guilty after watching television at night, instead of doing something 'useful' (cf. Hagen, 1997;Höijer, 1999). We know that others, whether actu-ally present or not, judge our actions and do not always condone our wasting time on television.People's media use is constrained especially by members of their own households. For instance, based on their own research and research of many others, Webster and Wakshlag (1982;1983) and Mutsaers (1996) argue that people's program choices depend on the program preferences of the group of people with whom they watch. World wide, family members influence and constrain each other's television use (Lull, 1988).Among the specific others in people's households, partners play a special role.Partners tend to spend their leisure time together (Kalmijn and Bernasco, 2001), and they tend to watch television together as well (McDonald, 1985(McDonald, , 1986. If men and women engage in such shared leisure time activities, this creates mutual dependencies; the more they share activities together in their leisure time, the more their well-being depends on each other Partners and TV exposure 4 (Kalmijn and Bernasco, 2001). Simultaneously, they learn how their partners give meaning to these joint activities. All of this makes it likely that partners influence each other's definition of the situation concerning television viewing (cf. Gantz, 2001;Gunter and Svennevig, 1987;Renckstorf and Wester, 2004). Subsequently, partners mutually shape each other's decisions to watch television or not, and thus mutually influence the amount of time they spend watching television ...

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Filling a missing link: the influence of portrayals of older characters in television commercials on the memory performance of older adults

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The portrayal of older characters in television commercials has over time become more varied and positive. This study examines how different portrayals of older characters relate to self-stereotyping, a process through which older individuals apply their beliefs about older people in general to themselves and behave accordingly. The study thereby seeks to connect, as few have previously done, cultural studies and critiques of media portrayals with psychological studies of the effects of self-stereotyping. Sixty participants aged 65-75 years were primed with television commercials that portrayed older characters in different ways : ' warm and incompetent ', 'warm and competent ', and 'cold and competent'. It was hypothesised that priming with warm/incompetent portrayals would have a negative effect on memory performance because such representations match the dominant stereotype, and that the effect would occur only among older people who identify with their own age group. It was found that the participants who identified with their own age group did indeed show impaired memory performance after priming with warm/incompetent portrayals, but also that the same effect was found after priming with warm/competent portrayals. The findings are discussed in terms of resistance against stereotyping by older individuals themselves as well as by media producers.

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Older Adults’ Television Viewing from a Life-Span Perspective: Past Research and Future Challenges

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Older adults’ television viewing as part of selection and compensation strategies

Older adults’ television viewing as part of selection and compensation strategies

Partners' influence on each other's television exposure: Dominance or symmetry?

Filling a missing link: the influence of portrayals of older characters in television commercials on the memory performance of older adults

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