Gender differences, mediation, and disciplinary styles in children's responses to television

Desmond, Roger Jon; Hirsch, Bennett; Singer, Dorothy G.; Singer, Jerome L.

doi:10.1007/bf00289549

Cited by 24 publications

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“…Parents are also more likely to make rules and control viewing for female children (Gross & Walsh, 1980). While boys are generally the object of more power-assertive types of discipline (Liebert et al, 1982), they do not necessarily receive higher levels of supervision of television viewing (Desmond, Hirsch, Singer, & Singer, 1987).…”

Section: Parental Mediation and Rulemaking For Television Viewingmentioning

confidence: 98%

Parental mediation and rulemaking for adolescent use of television and VCRs

Lin¹,

Atkin²

1989

Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media

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Section: Parental Mediation and Rulemaking For Television Viewingmentioning

confidence: 98%

Parental mediation and rulemaking for adolescent use of television and VCRs

Lin¹,

Atkin²

1989

Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media

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“…Active mediation can involve educating children about the technical aspects of media programming (Nathanson, 2010) or providing children with opinions about content (Nathanson, 2004). Active mediation is linked with many positive outcomes, including enhanced comprehension of and learning from television (Collins, Sobol, & Westby, 1988; Corder‐Bolz, 1980; Corder‐Bolz & O’Bryant, 1978; Desmond, Singer, Singer, Calam, & Colimore, 1985; Valkenburg, Krcmar, & deRoos, 1998), skepticism toward televised news (Austin, 1993), and endorsement of nontraditional gender roles (Corder‐Bolz, 1980). In addition, active mediation can reduce negative effects of television on children, including modifying undesirable responses to advertising (Buijzen, 2009; Buijzen & Valkenburg, 2005), news (Buijzen, Walma van der Molen, & Sondij, 2007), violent programming (Corder‐Bolz, 1980; Nathanson, 1999, 2004; Nathanson & Cantor, 2000), and scary content (Cantor, 1994).…”

Section: Parent Monitoring Of Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

Do You See What I See? Parent and Child Reports of Parental Monitoring of Media

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Research on parental monitoring of children's media use suggests parents can reduce the negative effects of media exposure on children, although this research is rarely conducted with elementary school children and leaves open questions about whether parents or children are better reporters. Participants were 1,323 children, their parents, and teachers. Parents and children reported on four aspects of monitoring for TV and video games: co‐using, limit setting on amount, limit setting on content, and active mediation. Parents gave much higher estimates than did children. Monitoring was moderated by child age, child sex, parent marital status, parent education, and parent income. Although parent‐ and child‐reported monitoring correlated rather poorly, both types were almost equally good predictors of children's screen time, media violence exposure, and teacher reports of school performance. When there were differences, the child reports tended to be slightly better predictors, demonstrating the validity of child reports of parental monitoring.

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“…Demographic differences may play an important part in determining if youth report when they are having problems online. For example, parents tend to allow boys more independence and to be more protective of girls (Buijzen, et al, ; Cowan & Avants, ; Desmond, Hirsch, Singer & Singer, ), and boys spend more time on computers than girls (Rideout, et al, ). This is further complicated because boys' responses to parental mediation efforts are more pronounced than girls' (Desmond et al, ).…”

Section: Bioecological Systems Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%