TY - JOUR
T1 - The relationship among TV violence, aggression, anti–social behaviors and parental mediation
AU - Dinkha, Juliet
AU - Mitchell, Charles
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014, Mediterranean Center of Social and Educational Research. All rights reserved.
PY - 2014/11/1
Y1 - 2014/11/1
N2 - This paper proposes to ascertain whether there is a correlation between parent-child relationships and media consumption in Kuwait, and if so, it will examine the factors that play a role in it such as the parents’ education level, marital status, and socioeconomic status (SES). In our research we attempt to find out whether when there is less parental supervision and interaction if this will lead children into consuming more television and whether more television consumption will lead adolescents to assume anti–social behaviors, most notably violent behaviors. We built on the theory of modeling and social learning and the effects on violence, seminally noted in the work by Albert Bandura, and theorized that we would also find correlations with TV consumption and violent behaviors in our sample. We wrote, assembled and circulated a qualitative survey based on the literature review consisting of personal interviews of 120 respondents and asked them about their childhood relationship with TV, violent behavior, and their parents’ control of their TV consumption. We reported our results as a narrative based on the responses in our sample. What we found in our results was that a large number of adolescents in Kuwait were exhibiting violent behaviors directly correlated to the amount of violent content they consumed on TV as a child especially when there was little parental control or mediation, this was especially true with the male respondents in our sample.
AB - This paper proposes to ascertain whether there is a correlation between parent-child relationships and media consumption in Kuwait, and if so, it will examine the factors that play a role in it such as the parents’ education level, marital status, and socioeconomic status (SES). In our research we attempt to find out whether when there is less parental supervision and interaction if this will lead children into consuming more television and whether more television consumption will lead adolescents to assume anti–social behaviors, most notably violent behaviors. We built on the theory of modeling and social learning and the effects on violence, seminally noted in the work by Albert Bandura, and theorized that we would also find correlations with TV consumption and violent behaviors in our sample. We wrote, assembled and circulated a qualitative survey based on the literature review consisting of personal interviews of 120 respondents and asked them about their childhood relationship with TV, violent behavior, and their parents’ control of their TV consumption. We reported our results as a narrative based on the responses in our sample. What we found in our results was that a large number of adolescents in Kuwait were exhibiting violent behaviors directly correlated to the amount of violent content they consumed on TV as a child especially when there was little parental control or mediation, this was especially true with the male respondents in our sample.
KW - Kuwait
KW - Modeling theory
KW - Social learning theory
KW - TV
KW - Violence
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84910037171&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.5901/mjss.2014.v5n23p1906
DO - 10.5901/mjss.2014.v5n23p1906
M3 - Article
VL - 5
SP - 1906
EP - 1913
JO - Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences
JF - Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences
IS - 23
ER -