@article{ref1,
title="Effects of television content on physical risk-taking in children",
journal="Journal of experimental child psychology",
year="1994",
author="Potts, R. and Doppler, M. and Hernandez, Melba",
volume="58",
number="3",
pages="321-331",
abstract="This study is an investigation of effects of risk-taking by characters in television programs on children's self-reported willingness to take physical risks. Twenty-four boys and 26 girls, ages 6 to 9 years, were assigned to view TV stimulus programs with infrequent physical risk-taking. TV stimulus programs with frequent risk-taking, or no TV stimuli. A self-report measure was used to assess children's willingness to take physical risks in several common injury-relevant situations. Five of the items were administered as a pretest before children watched the stimulus programs and five items were used as a post-test after they viewed the programs. A validation assessment on an independent sample of children indicated that the risk-taking measure was positively correlated with other measures of risk-taking as well as physical injuries. Results indicated that children who viewed the high-risk TV programs increased their self-reported risk-taking significantly more than children in the low-risk TV and no-TV control conditions. Findings are discussed within a theoretical context of observational learning processes, with implications for childhood injury.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0022-0965",
doi="10.1006/jecp.1994.1037",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/jecp.1994.1037"
}