Television and Families: What Do Young Children Watch with Their Parents?

Peters, Michelle St.; Fitch, Marguerite; Huston, Aletha C.; Wright, John; Eakins, Darwin J.

doi:10.2307/1130815

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“…Coviewing with parents is more typical when children are watching programs parents want to view. 76 Given the high rates of violent content on TV, 77,78 it is likely that the child would be exposed to violent content while coviewing.…”

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Television Exposure as a Risk Factor for Aggressive Behavior Among 3-Year-Old Children

Manganello

Taylor²

2009

Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med

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To examine associations of child television (TV) exposure and household TV use with aggressive behavior among 3-year-old children while controlling for demographic characteristics and risk and protective factors for aggression. Design:The Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a prospective cohort study.Setting: Data collected at home and by telephone from parents of children born from 1998 to 2000 from 20 cities.Participants: Mothers who completed a 36-month inhome survey and met inclusion criteria (n = 3128).Main Exposure: Direct child TV exposure and household TV use were the primary explanatory variables. Additional risk factors included neighborhood disorder and maternal factors like depression.Outcome Measures: Childhood aggression was assessed with the Child Behavior Checklist/2-3. Multivar-iate linear regression models were used to examine associations between TV measures, additional risk factors, and childhood aggression.Results: Children who were spanked in the past month (␤=1.24, PϽ .001), lived in a disorderly neighborhood (␤=2.07, P Ͻ.001), and had a mother reporting depression (␤=0.92, P Ͻ.001) and parenting stress (␤ =0.16, P Ͻ .001) were significantly more likely to exhibit aggressive behavior. Direct child TV exposure (␤ = 0.16, PϽ.001) and household TV use (␤=0.09, PϽ.001) were also significantly associated with childhood aggression, even when controlling for other factors.Conclusions: Three-year-old children exposed to more TV, both directly and indirectly, are at increased risk for exhibiting aggressive behavior. Further research is essential to determine whether pediatric recommendations concerning TV and children should include limits for general household TV use.

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Television Exposure as a Risk Factor for Aggressive Behavior Among 3-Year-Old Children

Manganello

Taylor²

2009

Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med

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“…Additionally, whereas coviewing is often suggested as a strategy to mitigate the effects of television content, 4 studies have shown that children usually watch the shows that parents want to watch. 32,33 Future research should investigate the empirical question of whether any benefits of coviewing outweigh the risks associated with an increase in TVV that is related to coviewing. Specifically, more detailed measures of the quality of coviewing and decisions about the content of coviewed programming would be useful.…”

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The Relationship Between Parents’ and Children’s Television Viewing

2013

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OBJECTIVE: To examine the effect of parental television viewing on children’s television viewing compared with traditional predictors such as household television access, parental rules, and demographic characteristics of the child, parent, and household. METHODS: An online survey using national samples of 1550 parents with children in 3 age groups (children ≤5 years, children aged 6–11 years, and adolescents aged 12–17 years), weighted to be representative of US parents with children in each age group. Adolescents (n = 629) of participating parents were also surveyed. RESULTS: Parent television time is associated with child television time and had a stronger relationship to child time than access to television in the home or the child’s bedroom, as well as parental rules about television viewing and coviewing. This pattern persisted across all age groups of children. CONCLUSIONS: Educating parents about the relationship between their own and their child’s viewing may be a useful strategy for interventions that aim to reduce children’s excessive television viewing. Additionally, health professionals can engage parents in a discussion about how family television time is associated with increased television time for children.

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“…Single‐item assessment of media use does not provide contextual data (e.g., child viewed coverage with parents, child was online alone). Media use can be a family activity and viewing television may be the most frequent family activity (Timmer, Eccles, & O’Brien, 1985; St. Peters et al., 1991).…”

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“…Research has failed to investigate the important role of parents in reducing or increasing youth anxiety triggered by media presentations of terrorism possibilities. Media use can be a social activity (Kubey & Csikszentmihalyi, 1990; St. Peters et al., 1991; Timmer et al., 1985) and greater child television viewing has been associated with increased parent–child contact (Krosnick et al., 2003).…”

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Terrorism: The psychological impact on youth.

Comer

Kendall

2007

Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice

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Research on the psychological impact of terrorism on youth is reviewed and evaluated. Children having proximal contact with terrorism show elevated posttraumatic stress, separation anxiety, and/or other symptoms. Following a terrorist attack, youth proximal and distal to the attack are exposed to a vast amount of attackrelated media coverage and exposure to such media coverage is associated with postattack posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptomatology. However, the research is inchoate, including an insufficient scope and methodological limitations. Research has yet to examine the impact that exposure to an extended context of threat, expectation, and alert has on child development. Importantly, how are children influenced by secondhand terrorism -the context in which cultural influences disproportionately attend to the possibilities , rather than probabilities , of future terrorism? Research is needed to evaluate the impact of terrorism on psychopathology (beyond PTSD), functional impairment, and ethnic stereotyping in youth, and to examine the efficacy of psychological programs that strive to redress the problems of youth affected by terrorism.

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Television and Families: What Do Young Children Watch with Their Parents?

Cited by 14 publications

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Television Exposure as a Risk Factor for Aggressive Behavior Among 3-Year-Old Children

Television Exposure as a Risk Factor for Aggressive Behavior Among 3-Year-Old Children

The Relationship Between Parents’ and Children’s Television Viewing

Terrorism: The psychological impact on youth.

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