TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2013//
TI  - Children and television news
JO  - Procedia - social and behavioral sciences
A1  - Erdur-Baker, Ozgur
A1  - Kandemir-Ozdinc, Nasibe
SP  - 351
EP  - 355
VL  - 84
IS  - 
N2  - The aims of the study are to examine; whether children perceive television news as real, whether mothers are aware of their children's television news induced fears, the most common frightful coverages of television news and children's behaviors as reaction to fearful television news coverages. Participants were 186, 8-13 years old children and their mothers. According to results, most of the children are aware of the seriousness of news. TV news coverages about; "children who get hurt", "children who are kidnapped", "animals who get hurt" were the most common fearful coverages. Girls mostly experience difficulty sleeping and the boys mostly behave as frustrated as reaction to the news.<p />
LA  - en
SN  - 1877-0428
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2013.06.565
ID  - ref1
ER  -