Media Impact on Preschool Behavior

媒体对学前行为的影响

• 批准号: 7466877
• 负责人: DIMITRI A CHRISTAKIS
• 金额: $ 56.83万
• 依托单位: SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-08-20 至 2012-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7466877
• 关键词: Academy; Adolescence; Adverse effects; Affect; Age; Aggressive behavior; American; Area; Behavior; Behavioral; Child; Child Behavior; Conscious; Diet; Early Intervention; Exhibits; Goals; Habits; Hour; Intervention; Language; Mind; Nursery Schools; Parents; Pattern; Pediatrics; Preschool Child; Primary Prevention; Public Health; Range; Recommendation; Research; Television; Testing; Time; Upper arm; Violence; Week; Youth; age group; improved; programs; tv watching

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Considerable research has established the adverse effects of violent television programming on children's level of aggression. Research has also established that certain types of media programming can actually promote prosocial behavior. Unfortunately, the current viewing habits of most preschoolers lean heavily towards inappropriate programming at the expense of higher quality shows. This study will attempt to improve the TV diet of preschool children, without increasing overall viewing time. Keeping in mind the American Academy of Pediatrics recommendations for screen time in this age group, we will test an intervention to assist parents in making conscious and informed decisions regarding the media content to which their young children are exposed. This primary prevention effort will focus on young children, in an attempt to avert the emergence of violent behavior patterns later in youth and adolescence. The age of 3-5 is carefully chosen for this intervention because of the ready availability of prosocial content for young children, with known benefits for encouraging prosocial behavior; because of the heavy diet of aggressive and violent content that children in this age range actually watch; because young children may be especially vulnerable to the effects of viewing upon behavior and because despite the obvious promise of early interventions to set good behavioral patterns early, there is a dearth of research in this area. In doing so, we have three specific aims: Aim 1: To improve the quality of television viewing H1a. Children in the intervention arm will watch fewer hours of aggressive programming per week than children in the control arm H1b Children in the intervention arm will watch more hours of prosocial television than children in the control arm Aim 2: To decrease aggression in the intervention arm H2. Children in the intervention arm exhibit less aggression than children in the control arm Aim 3: To increase prosocial behavior in the intervention arm H3 Children in the intervention arm will exhibit more prosocial behavior than children in the control arm. Media Impact Project Narrative Using no more than 2 or 3 sentences, describe the relevance of the research to public health. Be succinct and use plain language that can be understood by a general, lay audience. The types of programming young children watch has been shown to affect their behavior. This project will attempt to improve the media diet of young children by decreasing the amount of violence they watch and increasing the amount of prosocial programming. The goal will be to determine if this makes a positive difference in their behavior.

描述（由申请人提供）：大量研究确定了暴力电视节目对儿童侵略水平的不利影响。研究还确定，某些类型的媒体编程实际上可以促进亲社会行为。不幸的是，当前大多数学龄前儿童的观看习惯在很大程度上倾向于不适当的节目，而牺牲了更高质量的节目。这项研究将尝试改善学龄前儿童的电视饮食，而不会增加整体观看时间。牢记美国儿科学会建议在这个年龄段的屏幕时间建议，我们将测试一项干预措施，以帮助父母就暴露于幼儿的媒体内容做出有意识和明智的决定。这项主要的预防工作将集中于幼儿，以试图避免在青年和青春期后期的暴力行为模式的出现。由于幼儿的亲社会内容已准备就绪，因此，小心地选择了3-5岁的年龄，以鼓励亲社会行为受益；由于这个年龄段的孩子们实际观看的侵略性和暴力内容的大量饮食；因为幼儿可能特别容易受到观察对行为的影响，因为尽管有明显的早期干预措施可以尽早设定良好的行为模式，但该领域仍缺乏研究。在此过程中，我们有三个特定的目标：目标1：提高电视观看H1A的质量。干预部门的儿童每周观看比控制臂H1B儿童中的儿童每周观看较少的积极编程，而与控制臂的儿童相比，在干预臂中，观看的小时会观看小时的亲社会电视时间2：减少干预臂H2中的侵略性。干预部门的儿童表现出的攻击性比控制臂目标3：在干预臂中增加介入部门的亲社会行为的侵略性将比控制臂中的儿童表现出更多的亲社会行为。使用不超过2或3个句子的媒体影响项目叙述，描述研究与公共卫生的相关性。简洁并使用普通的语言，可以被一般的外行观众理解。幼儿手表的编程类型已被证明会影响他们的行为。该项目将尝试通过减少观察到的暴力量并增加亲社会节目的数量来改善幼儿的媒体饮食。目的是确定这是否会对他们的行为产生积极的影响。