Journal article
Mean on the Screen: Social Aggression in Programs Popular With Children
Journal of communication, Vol.62(6), pp.991-1009
12/2012
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2466.2011.01599.x
Abstract
A content analysis was conducted to examine the portrayal of social aggression in the 50 most popular television programs among 2- to 11-year-old children. Results revealed that 92% of the programs in the sample contained some social aggression. On average, there were 14 different incidents of social aggression per hour in these shows, or one every 4 minutes. Compared to the portrayals of physical aggression, social aggression was more likely to be enacted by an attractive perpetrator, to be featured in a humorous context, and neither rewarded or punished. In these ways, social aggression on television poses more of a risk for imitation and learning than do portrayals of physical aggression. Findings are discussed in terms of social cognitive theory.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Mean on the Screen: Social Aggression in Programs Popular With Children
- Creators
- Nicole Martins - Department of Telecommunications, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USABarbara J Wilson - Department of Communication, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of communication, Vol.62(6), pp.991-1009
- Publisher
- Blackwell Publishing Ltd
- DOI
- 10.1111/j.1460-2466.2011.01599.x
- ISSN
- 0021-9916
- eISSN
- 1460-2466
- Number of pages
- 19
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 12/2012
- Academic Unit
- President; Communication Studies
- Record Identifier
- 9984105800902771
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