Effects of Television Violence on Children
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Abstract*
The main aim of the investigation was to study the effect of television violence on forty subjects (20 boys, 20 girls ) of grade IV from a local English medium school in a 2x2 factorial design. Subjects did not significantly differ on violent behaviour or on parents' education and soci-economic status. A violent TV programme and a non-violent TV programme of 5 minutes duration in the English language were the main instruments used in the main study. Half of the subjects (10 boys, 10 girls ) were randomly assigned to an experimental group and the rest (10 boys, 10 girls) to a control group. Before the main study, rapport was developed.
All the subjects were asked to write short stories before-after TV exposure. The experimental group watched a violent television programme and the control group watched a non-violent television programme.
Results support the hypothesis that both of the sexes who watched violent TV content learned violence significantly as compared to those who watched non-violent television content.
*Abstract published in the Asian and XXXII IAAP Conference 'Emerging Horizons of Applied Psychology: Asian Perspective', February 27-29, 1996 held at Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India. The full paper was presented at the above conference.
For the full report please contact Alay Ahmad at the below address.
The main aim of the investigation was to study the effect of television violence on forty subjects (20 boys, 20 girls ) of grade IV from a local English medium school in a 2x2 factorial design. Subjects did not significantly differ on violent behaviour or on parents' education and soci-economic status. A violent TV programme and a non-violent TV programme of 5 minutes duration in the English language were the main instruments used in the main study. Half of the subjects (10 boys, 10 girls ) were randomly assigned to an experimental group and the rest (10 boys, 10 girls) to a control group. Before the main study, rapport was developed.
All the subjects were asked to write short stories before-after TV exposure. The experimental group watched a violent television programme and the control group watched a non-violent television programme.
Results support the hypothesis that both of the sexes who watched violent TV content learned violence significantly as compared to those who watched non-violent television content.
*Abstract published in the Asian and XXXII IAAP Conference 'Emerging Horizons of Applied Psychology: Asian Perspective', February 27-29, 1996 held at Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India. The full paper was presented at the above conference.
For the full report please contact Alay Ahmad at the below address.
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Dear Deborah .Thanks .Could you please add/correct and replace lines 4& 5 from Subjects...on violent behaviour .
It would like this :
Subjects did not significantly differ on violent behaviour as well as on parents' education and socio-economic status .
On 7th line e word of English with cap .
Sorry for this .
Sincerely
Alay Ahmad
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I have also published three papers on televsion in Gyanodaya. Alay Ahmad
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