Pass the Popcorn: Children's perceptions of 'obesogenic' culture in movies

传递爆米花：孩子们对电影中“致胖”文化的看法

• 批准号: 8599500
• 负责人: ELIANA M. PERRIN
• 金额: $ 22.1万
• 依托单位: UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-09-19 至 2015-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8599500
• 关键词: Affect; Age; Alcohol consumption; Arts; Attitude; Behavior; Behavioral; Behavioral Research; Case Study; Child; Clinical Psychology; Cognition; Cognitive; Cognitive Science; Cues; Development; Devices; Dimensions; Discipline; Documentation; Eating; Electronics; Exercise; Family; Film; Food; Friends; Future; Health; Health behavior; Hispanics; Institution; Knowledge; Measurement; Measures; Medicine; Mental Depression; Methods; Mind; Minority; Modeling; Nature; Obesity; Overweight; Pediatrics; Perception; Performance; Physical activity; Prevalence; Principal Investigator; Process; Production; Psychiatry; Psychology; Public Health; Recording of previous events; Religion and Spirituality; Research; Research Methodology; Research Project Grants; Schools; Sex Behavior; Smoking; Sociology; Source; Stream; System; Technology; Television; Time; Transcend; United States; Video Games; Violence; Visual; Weight; Work; base; experience; innovation; movie; public health relevance; response; sedentary; social; social stigma; tool; transmission process; tv watching

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Children receive cultural messages about appropriate eating, exercise, and attitudes from a variety of influences, likely including family, friends, schools, religious institutions, and electronic culture (television, movies, and video games). One important source of culture in the world for children is children's movies. Children have access to many movies and the ability to view them over and over again, contributing to significant daily exposure, more for children from minority backgrounds. These movies provide cues to normative behavior and experiences widely shared among similar-age children nationally and even worldwide. Prior research has established the prevalence and influence of negative health messages in movies, especially smoking, sexual behavior, and alcohol use. Our team's preliminary work has examined movies and found top-grossing G- and PG-rated movies depict unhealthy eating and sedentary activity as the norm, while simultaneously mocking overweight characters. The presentation of obesity, therefore, is condemning with the depiction of unhealthy food and exercise choices as positive. Research examining how children interpret these messages from culture, however, is scant. Understanding the production, transmission, and reception of health-related cues from children's movies is an inherently trans-disciplinary task. We plan to integrate a trans-disciplinary team that builds upon expertise in visual culture, cognitive and clinical psychology, media studies, cultural sociology, psychiatry, public health, pediatrics, and obesity that will be well poised to conduct basic social and behavioral research on culture, health, and wellbeing. We also propose a project as a case study for developing important, translatable measures. Specific aims are: 1. To build a trans-disciplinary research team that transcends disciplinary boundaries through synergistic work to focus on the relationship between visual culture and children's cognitive processing about eating, activity, obesity, and stigma to contribute to knowledge about the nature of behavioral and social systems; 2. To develop a trans-disciplinary conceptual model, research methods, and measurement strategies to assess what children observe in children's movies about eating and activity behaviors, obesity, and stigma about weight status (i.e., what do children see?); 3. To develop measurement strategies to determine how these cues might affect attitudes and intentions with regard to eating, activity, and weight status (i.e., how does what children see affect how they interpret and plan to act on these messages?).

描述（由申请人提供）：儿童从各种影响中接收有关适当饮食、锻炼和态度的文化信息，可能包括家庭、朋友、学校、宗教机构和电子文化（电视、电影和视频游戏）。世界上儿童文化的重要来源之一是儿童电影。孩子们可以观看许多电影，并且能够一遍又一遍地观看它们，这有助于增加大量的日常接触机会，对于来自少数族裔背景的孩子来说更是如此。这些电影为全国甚至全世界同龄儿童广泛共享的规范行为和经历提供了线索。先前的研究已经确定了电影中负面健康信息的普遍性和影响，尤其是吸烟、性行为和饮酒。我们团队的初步工作检查了电影，发现最卖座的 G 级和 PG 级电影将不健康的饮食和久坐的活动描绘成常态，同时嘲笑超重的角色。因此，对肥胖的描述是谴责性的，而对不健康食物和运动选择的描述则是积极的。然而，关于儿童如何解读这些文化信息的研究却很少。了解儿童电影中与健康相关的线索的制作、传输和接收本质上是一项跨学科的任务。我们计划整合一个跨学科团队，该团队以视觉文化、认知和临床心理学、媒体研究、文化社会学、精神病学、公共卫生、儿科和肥胖方面的专业知识为基础，准备好开展有关文化、健康和福祉的基础社会和行为研究。我们还提出了一个项目作为制定重要的可转化措施的案例研究。具体目标是： 1. 建立一个跨学科研究团队，通过协同工作超越学科界限，重点关注视觉文化与儿童关于饮食、活动、肥胖和耻辱的认知处理之间的关系，为了解行为和社会系统的本质做出贡献； 2. 开发跨学科的概念模型、研究方法和测量策略，以评估儿童在儿童电影中观察到的有关饮食和活动行为、肥胖和体重状况的耻辱（即儿童看到了什么？）； 3. 制定测量策略，以确定这些线索如何影响有关饮食、活动和体重状况的态度和意图（即，儿童所看到的内容如何影响他们对这些信息的解释和计划采取行动？）。