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Rubin, Alan M. – Human Communication Research, 1979
Examines the relationships between child and adolescent television use motivations and various sociodemographic characteristics, television viewing levels, program preference, and television attitudes. Viewing motivations include learning, passing time, companionship, escape, arousal, and relaxation. Discusses implications within the conceptual…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age, Attitudes, Audiences
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McDowell, Eugene E.; Stillion, Judith M. – New Directions for Child Development, 1994
Applies a suicide trajectory model to rates of suicide and attempted suicide to explain commonalities and age differences in risk factors affecting suicide across the life span. (HTH)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Age Differences, Behavioral Science Research