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Ogles, Robert M. – 1988
Many television viewers construct their social reality from media content as well as from sensory and interpersonally communicated information. One aspect of this media-influenced social reality is television viewers' estimates of crime in society, or their fear of criminal victimization. Several media-effects studies have demonstrated the…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Audience Analysis, Crime, Fear
Download full textO'Keefe, Garrett J.; Reid-Nash, Kathaleen – 1984
The so-called "cultivation hypothesis" proposes that television content comprises an organic whole of interrelated themes and symbols not necessarily congruent with the real world. However, findings of a primary study have indicated that television news has enough baseline credibility to have a significant impact on fear of crime among citizens.…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Attitudes, Broadcast Industry, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Banks, Seymour; Gupta, Rajinder – 1979
This statistical analysis of questionnaire data from a study of 673 third, fifth and seventh grade children and their parents was made to identify individual independent variables associated with children's total amount of television viewing. The data were analyzed by the stepwise linear regression method. The theoretical model guiding the…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Anxiety, Demography, Elementary School Students
