Social Implications of Music Videos for Youth

Sex on the Shore: Wishful Identification and Parasocial Relationships as Mediators in the Relationship BetweenJersey ShoreExposure and Emerging Adults' Sexual Attitudes and Behaviors

“…Instead, stronger relationships have been found between permissive sexual attitudes and specific genres of programming. One experimental study found that adolescents were more accepting of premarital sex after viewing MTV, the home of Jersey Shore, than were adolescents who had not viewed MTV (Greeson & Williams, 1986). Studies have also found significant relationships between adolescents' sexual attitudes and exposure to unscripted television programs (Riddle & De Simone, 2013) and even exposure to one popular television program (Collins et al, 2003;Wright, Randall, & Arroyo, 2013).…”

Gender‐Based Violence

“…Hip hop, rap, and heavy metal have been the target of most discussion due to their extremely violent and sexual nature (Greeson & Williams, 1986; Perry, 2003; St. Lawrence & Joyner, 1991).…”

Constructing personality and social reality through music: Individual differences among fans of punk and heavy metal music

“…It may be that all genres of popular music are inherently appealing to most youngsters and that their choice of musical preferences will largely be determined by chance factors, such as the type of music that is popular in their immediate physical locale or the type that is popular with the majority of their friends. On the other hand, there is an accumulating body of evidence that shows that, independent of music preferences, the thematic content of music alters attitudes and social judgments in the direction predicted by interactive and social cognitive information processing theories (Greeson & Williams, 1986;Hansen,1989;Hansen & Hansen, 1988,1990.…”

“…Groups such as the National Coalition on Television Violence (NCTV, 1984) and the American Academy of Pediatrics (Strasburger, 1988) have taken a similar stand against music videos. Content analyses of song lyrics and music video visuals have shown that they frequently contain sexually explicit and violent images (Baxter et al, 1985;Greeson & Williams, 1986;Huffman & Huffman, 1987;Lance & Berry, 1985;NCTV, 1984;Sherman & Dominick, 1986), antisocial behavior (Brown & Campbell, 1986;Hansen & Hansen, 1990), and sex-role stereotypes or sexist portrayals of male-female relations (cf. Endres, 1984;Hansen & Hansen, 1988;Huffman & Huffman, 1987;Waite & Paludi, 1986).…”