Children's Reported Investment of Mental Effort When Viewing Television
| Autor: | Barbara R. Bordeaux, Garrett Lange |
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| Rok vydání: | 1991 |
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Linguistics and Language
Television viewing Higher education business.industry Communication 05 social sciences 050801 communication & media studies 050109 social psychology Cognition Investment (macroeconomics) Language and Linguistics Developmental psychology Mental effort 0508 media and communications 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences business Psychology Social psychology |
| Zdroj: | Communication Research. 18:617-635 |
| ISSN: | 1552-3810 0093-6502 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/009365091018005003 |
| Popis: | This cross-sectional survey of 116 Black second-, fourth-, and sixth-grade children and their parents included examining children's active, conscious cognitive processing of television program information during home viewing. During in-school interviews, children reported their investment of mental effort when watching child and adult types of programs. The results offer support for the view that children's mental-effort investment varies as a function of viewer age and the type of program being viewed. Children's reported investment of mental effort when viewing child programs significantly decreased from second to sixth grade. Although there appeared to be age-related increases in mental-effort investment for certain adult-program subcategories, overall investment scores for adult programs were not significantly different among the three grades. Measures of parental participation bore low but reliable relationships to children's reports of mental-effort investment for child types of programs. However, children's home-viewing variables and program familiarity explained little of the observed variation in mental-effort investment. |
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