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Bond, Bradley J. – Early Education and Development, 2013
Research Findings: Media representations of physical disability can influence the attitudes of child audiences. In the current study, the depiction of physical disability was analyzed in more than 400 episodes of children's television programming to better understand how media depict physical disability to children and, in turn, how exposure may…
Descriptors: Physical Disabilities, Content Analysis, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Childrens Television
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Burkitt, Esther; Watling, Dawn – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2013
The present study was designed to investigate the impact of familiarity and audience age on children's self-presentation in self-drawings of happy, sad and neutral figures. Two hundred children (100 girls and 100 boys) with the average age of 8 years 2 months, ranging from 6 years 3 months to 10 years 1 month, formed two age groups and five…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Age Differences, Children, Freehand Drawing
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Friedman, Daniela B.; Laditka, Sarah B.; Laditka, James N.; Price, Anna E. – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 2011
Health behaviors, particularly physical activity, may promote cognitive health. The public agenda for health behaviors is influenced by popular media. We analyzed the cognitive health content of 20 United States magazines, examining every page of every 2006-2007 issue of the highest circulating magazines for general audiences, women, men, African…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Health Promotion, Public Health, Health Behavior