Television and Media Violence - Is Aggressive Behavior Linked to TV Vio

Is Aggressive Behavior Linked to Television vehemence? According the Centerwall (1992), the average child aged 2-5 in 1990 watched 27 hours of telly per day, or almost 4 hours per day. When much of what is on picture, including cartoons and idiot box shows targeted at children, contains violence, it becomes important to know whether watching televised violence can lead to or increase aggressive behavior. Social learning theory tells us that children illustration their behavior after those they see. It is reasonable, then, to infer that watching violence on picture set will lead to behaving violently, due to the modeling effect. The present study reviews whatsoever relevant prior research, and then investigates the hypothesis that children who view violent telly behave more aggressively than children who view less violent tv set do. Centerwall (1992) performed an intriguing study that strongly suggests a positive correlation with idiot box viewing and aggressive, violent behavior. This study looks at the effect that the introduction of television had on the populations of third countries the United States, Canada, and South Africa. Centerwall compared the homicide rates in these three countries during the years of 1945, 1974, and 1987. In 1945, the US and Canada were blessed with television, so the homicide statistics from 1945 were the last statistics that did not have the influence of television. South Africa, in contrast, did not receive television until 1975. Before 1975, South Africa had introduced other media radio and cinema for example so these statistics isolate the effect of television as a cause of increase homicide rates. Center... ...on cartoons on emotionally disturbed children. diary of Pediatric psychological science 12413-427 Huston-Stein, A., Fox, S., Greer, D., Watkins, B. A., & Whitaker, J. (1981). The effects of TV action and violence on childrens social behavior. ledger of Genetic Psychology 138183-191 Wiegman, O., Kuttschr euter, M., & Baarda, B. (1992). A longitudinal study of the effects of television viewing on aggressive and prosocial behaviors. British Journal of Social Psychology 31147-164 Centerwall, B. S. (1992). Television and violence the scale of the problem and where to go from here. The Journal of the American Medical Association 2673059-3063 Singer, M. I., Miller, D. B., Guo, S., Flannery, D. J., Frierson, T., Slovak, K. (1999). Contributors to violent behavior among elementary and sum school children. Pediatrics 104878