Kijkgedrag van kinderen en hun angstreacties op televisienieuws: een surveystudie

Ebbinkhuijsen, Ming; Daalmans, Serena; Kleemans, Mariska

doi:10.5117/tcw2021.3.002.ebbi

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“…Although there are several studies that investigated children's news consumption and the use of reactive coping strategies (Hoffner and Haefner, 1994;Kleemans et al, 2017b;Ebbinkhuijsen et al, 2021b;Cantor and Harrison, 2022), we were not able to make a specific prediction which coping strategies would be stronger in mediating the relation between (a) negative emotions, (b) anxiety-related behaviors regarding the COVID-19 pandemic and pandemic news avoidance. Therefore, we question:…”

Section: Reactive Coping As Mediator Between Emotional Responses and ...mentioning

confidence: 58%

“…Real-live conversations with peers seems to be a potentially successful coping strategy for these children (Kleemans et al, 2017b). However, Ebbinkhuijsen et al (2021b) found that distancing -and more specifically distraction -is more effective than seeking online social support in peers when dealing with negative emotions elicited by the news, directly after exposure to negative news content.…”

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confidence: 94%

“…Several studies have shown that children display increased negative emotions after negative news consumption (e.g., Walma Van Der Molen et al, 2002;Buijzen et al, 2007;Riddle et al, 2012;Ebbinkhuijsen et al, 2021b). In general, the intensity of emotions elicited by the news was found to be relatively low in studies that investigated children's consumption of news that is specifically tailored to their needs -such as the Dutch children's television news (e.g., Kleemans et al, 2017a,b;Ebbinkhuijsen et al, 2021a).…”

Section: Mediation Via Negative Emotions and Anxiety-related Behaviorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…They argue that news avoidance might prevent children from experiencing more negative emotions and provide them the opportunity to use distraction as a coping strategy for protecting themselves from this news. Two other studies investigated whether seeking social support in peers would be an effective strategy to deal with (negative) emotions elicited by the news (Kleemans et al, 2017b;Ebbinkhuijsen et al, 2021b). Real-live conversations with peers seems to be a potentially successful coping strategy for these children (Kleemans et al, 2017b).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Explaining Children’s News Avoidance During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Ebbinkhuijsen

Buijzen²,

Leeuw³

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Front. Psychol.

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Despite growing concerns that children (8–13 years old) tend to avoid the news, the reasons why have received little research attention. Therefore, the current study aims to develop and test a model conceptualizing the relations between children’s news consumption, news avoidance, emotional responses (negative emotions and anxiety-related behaviors), and parent and child mitigation strategies. The model was tested using data collected during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. The current, preregistered, survey study was part of a longitudinal project and used data from the second wave. Data were collected in November/December 2020 among 510 children (Mage = 10.40; 53.72% girls). Findings showed that children who consumed more news during the pandemic avoided pandemic news less often. Children who experienced more anxiety-related behaviors regarding pandemic news avoided pandemic news more often. The relation between news consumption and emotional responses was stronger for children who experienced restrictive parental mediation more often, indicating that this was not an effective parental mediation strategy for tempering their emotional responses. Children with higher levels of emotional responses used reactive coping strategies more often. However, this did not seem to be an effective strategy against pandemic news avoidance because none of the strategies had a negative relation with pandemic news avoidance. Distancing was even positively related to pandemic news avoidance. Although the current study was not able to fully unravel how news avoidance-related constructs relate to one another, we were able to get some important insights guiding future research. Specifically, it is of crucial importance to unravel the mechanisms that increase the chance of children’s news avoidance and those that mitigate it, to build interventions to counteract news avoidance and to protect children from the negative emotional consequences by news consumption.

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Explaining Children’s News Avoidance During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Leeuw³

et al. 2022

Front. Psychol.

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“…These students probably engage with SSI in class because their teacher encourages them to or because the activity is part of the school routine. Many of the In-Class Users were in primary education; during primary education in the Netherlands, it is customary to watch youth news programs at school (Ebbinkhuijsen et al, 2021), often during fruit or lunch breaks.…”

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Students' engagement with Socioscientific issues: Use of sources of knowledge and attitudes

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The current study is about students' engagement with socioscientific issues (SSI). We explored the use of sources of knowledge about SSI and attitudes toward SSI among a sample of 1676 Dutch 8‐ to 16‐year‐old students. First, we developed a questionnaire that measured students' use of four sources of knowledge about SSI: Social Resources (online media use and talking with parents and friends), In‐Class Resources (in‐class talk and in‐class offline media use), Visit Resources (visiting the zoo or a science museum with parents or school), and Offline Media Resources (engaging with issues or the news via books, magazines, newspapers, or TV). Second, we performed a latent profile analysis to explore students' patterns of use of these sources. This resulted in five profiles: Social Visitors (5.9%), Offline Media Consumers (10.6%), Media Discussers (14.3%), In‐Class Users (21.0%), and Non‐Users (48.3%). Third, we related these profiles to students' attitudes toward SSI, as measured with the Pupils' Attitudes toward Socioscientific Issues (PASSI) questionnaire. In line with the sources of knowledge profiles, the Non‐Users felt and thought most negatively about engagement with SSI, while the Media Discussers showed the most positive attitudes. We believe that our exploration of the profiles adds to the discourse about students' socioscientific capital. Moreover, this study informs teachers about the resources that students may bring into the learning environment and their decision‐making about SSI. The study concludes with practical suggestions about stimulating the use of sources of knowledge for certain groups of students and fostering positive attitudes toward engagement with SSI.

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Kijkgedrag van kinderen en hun angstreacties op televisienieuws: een surveystudie

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Explaining Children’s News Avoidance During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Explaining Children’s News Avoidance During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Students' engagement with Socioscientific issues: Use of sources of knowledge and attitudes

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