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Martins, Nicole; Wilson, Barbara J. – Human Communication Research, 2012
A survey was conducted with over 500 children in grades K-5 to examine whether exposure to socially aggressive content was related to children's use of social aggression. The results of the survey revealed a significant relationship between exposure to televised social aggression and increased social aggression at school, but only for girls and…
Descriptors: Evidence, Elementary School Students, Aggression, Epistemology
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Grimes, Tom; Bergen, Lori; Nichols, Kathie; Vernberg, Eric; Fonagy, Peter – Human Communication Research, 2004
Children with diagnosed psychopathologies may experience aggravation of those illnesses with their exposure to media violence. Children with the most common, often undiagnosed, form of psychopathology--Disruptive Behavior Disorders (DBDs)--manifested changes in heart rate, heart vagal heart tone and other psychophysiological reactions to media…
Descriptors: Programming (Broadcast), Psychopathology, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Violence