06-12-2012, 01:15 PM
The Effects of Television Violence on Children
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Violent content
57% of TV program contain violence
Children programming contains 5 times more violence than prime time television.
25% of violent acts involve handguns
Children’s TV shows contain about 20 violent acts each hour
How does TV violence mislead children?
Violence is often rewarded and seldom has negative consequences.
- 73% of perpetrators on TV are unpunished (National Television Violence Study, 1992)
- Heroes are rarely unpunished
- no bleeding, no one gets hurt
- people killed just disappear
Violence is everywhere.
“mean world syndrome” (Gurbner),
violence or abuse is everywhere
there is no good in this world
Violence is justified.
violence by “good guys” is justified and heroic
a particular character gets beaten up because he is a “bad guy”
Violence is funny.
much cartoon violence used as comic effect
it’s ok and no big deal for somebody to be smacked in the head with a hammer
Other effects
long-range effects (Leonard Eron)
many hours of television view in elementary school
lead higher level of aggressiveness behavior in teenage years
children who watched a lot of TV when they were eight years old
were more likely to be arrested and prosecuted for criminal acts
when they become adults (observed the children until they were 30)
V-chip
In 1996 Congress requires television manufacture to install “V-chips” into new sets.
Helps parents monitor children viewing