This report deals with several questions concerning the Finnish people's conceptions of the mass media, especially in a situation when the introduction of a new medium, television, is changing the field of mass communication. The subjects for the survey were television owners and non-owners in Lapland. The questions dealt with in this descriptive…

A longitudinal field study conducted in Turku, Finland, traced the development of aggression as a function of the viewing of violence by children from the ages of 7 and 9 to the ages of 15 and 17 to explore the connection between violence viewing and viewers' aggression, and to shed light on the question of causality. The 220 subjects, both male…