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Children's Television-Viewing Frequency: Individual Differences and Demographic Correlates.

June Price Tangney1, Seymour Feshbach2

  • 1Bryn Mawr College.

Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin
|July 27, 2018
PubMed
Summary

Children's television viewing habits are strongly influenced by ethnicity, with Black children watching significantly more than White children. Viewing frequency is a stable individual trait over time, regardless of demographic factors.

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Area of Science:

  • Child Development
  • Media Psychology
  • Sociology of Media

Background:

  • Demographic factors like ethnicity and socioeconomic status are linked to children's TV viewing.
  • These factors are often overlooked in research connecting viewing habits to psychological and social variables.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the relationship between demographic factors and television viewing frequency in children.
  • To determine the stability of television viewing behavior over time.

Main Methods:

  • Study involved three samples of upper elementary school students.
  • Data collected on television viewing frequency and demographic variables.
  • Longitudinal analysis of viewing frequency over 1- and 2-year periods.

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Main Results:

  • Ethnicity significantly determined television viewing amounts; Black children viewed nearly twice as much as White children.
  • Parental education was inversely related to viewing frequency.
  • Viewing frequency was a stable behavioral trait for individual children over time, irrespective of demographic subgroups.

Conclusions:

  • Ethnicity is a primary determinant of children's television viewing habits.
  • Television viewing frequency is a stable individual characteristic.
  • Methodological considerations for future research on media behavior are highlighted.