Media Use and Children's Perceptions of Societal Threat and Personal Vulnerability

Autor/inn/en	Comer, Jonathan S.; Furr, Jami M.; Beidas, Rinad S.; Babyar, Heather M.; Kendall, Philip C.
Titel	Media Use and Children's Perceptions of Societal Threat and Personal Vulnerability
Quelle	In: Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 37 (2008) 3, S.622-630 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1537-4416
Schlagwörter	Internet; Anxiety; Children; Early Adolescents; Mass Media Use; Mass Media Effects; Childhood Attitudes; Crime; Terrorism; Natural Disasters; Television Viewing; Television Research + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Angst; Child; Kind; Kinder; Mediennutzung; Crimes; Delict; Delicts; Delikt; Terrorismus; Natural disaster; Naturkatastrophe; Fernsehkonsum
Abstract	This study examined children's media use (i.e., amount of television and Internet usage) and relationships to children's perceptions of societal threat and personal vulnerability. The sample consisted of 90 community youth aged 7 to 13 years (M = 10.8; 52.2% male) from diverse economic backgrounds. Analyses found children's television use to be associated with elevated perceptions of personal vulnerability to world threats (i.e., crime, terrorism, earthquakes, hurricanes, and floods). An interactive model of television use and child anxiety in accounting for children's personal threat perceptions was supported, in which the strength of television consumption in predicting children's personal threat perceptions was greater for children with greater anxiety. Relationships were found neither between children's Internet use and threat perceptions nor between media use and perceptions of societal threat. (Contains 4 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10