Some Media Effects on Children-A Review

PEDIATRICS, 2010

Youth spend an average of Ͼ7 hours/day using media, and the vast majority of them have access to a bedroom television, computer, the Internet, a video-game console, and a cell phone. In this article we review the most recent research on the effects of media on the health and well-being of children and adolescents. Studies have shown that media can provide information about safe health practices and can foster social connectedness. However, recent evidence raises concerns about media's effects on aggression, sexual behavior, substance use, disordered eating, and academic difficulties. We provide recommendations for parents, practitioners, the media, and policy makers, among others, for ways to increase the benefits and reduce the harm that media can have for the developing child and for adolescents.

Journal-American Academy of Child and …, 2001

Concern from parents, professionals, and the populace at large about the impact of the media on children and adolescents has grown steadily over recent years. Recent events, most prominently the school murders of the past 2 years, in Pearl, Mississippi; Jonesboro, Arkansas; Paducah, Kentucky; and Littleton, Colorado, have drawn attention to the volatile confluence of culture and psychopathology. It has become imperative for clinicians to understand the role of media exposure on children in order to diagnose and treat behavioral problems as well as to prevent further tragedies.

2011

In today’s society, electronic media are thoroughly integrated into the fabric of life, with television, movies, videos, music, video games, and computers, central to both work and play. While these media outlets can provide education and entertainment to children, many researches are concerned with the negative impact electronic media is having on children. Media is used as a third parent or servant. Lot of aspects are important related to media exposure and child behavior. Media exposure affects the neurodevelopment, nutrition and health and academic achievements of the child. Parent education plays an important role in the behavior modification of the children.

2004

In the work a discussions focused on negative influences of the media on children and adolescents. The following domains of influence have been described: violence and its three effects: copycat violence, desensitization and catharsis; aggressive behaviour, sexual content, body image and self-esteem as well as physical health and school performance. The media change the system of humanistic values and attitudes of children and adolescents. In order to prevent the dangerous influence of the media parents and educators should advocate a safer media environment for children and adolescents through media literacy.

International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health, 2007

A concise review of the literature on the influence of electronic media on children's health is given. The exposure to different media is estimated with special reference to the situation in Germany. The impact on violence and aggressive behavior, on sexuality, on physical activity, obesity and nutrition, on substance use and abuse and addiction, on anxiety, depression, irregular sleep, and attention deficits, on cognition, language and reading, creativity is discussed. Although some of the results reported are still in question, there is no doubt that television and other electronic media negatively influence children's mental and somatic well-being. They have fundamentally changed the life of children and expose them to a powerful experiment with unpredictable and possibly irreversible outcome.

2014

Peers do believe that children's negative reactions towards witnessing high levels of violence on media may become spontaneous, and may risk to other abnormal situations, in their later phase, over time, jeopardizing their emotional security and social behaviour problems. Of the media, Children are increasingly becoming heavy consumers giving rise the perception of the world as a dangerous place. This subject with its essential consequence has remained one of the most- urgent, as well as hotly disputed topics, in psychological studies. At the same moment it has been subjected to a searching critique and a debate to the psychologists as well as the researchers for many decades. Suggestively, this review considers various dimensional studies that suggest and figure out an appropriate discipline of psychology and research that can meet with, comprehensively, the specific coping styles, their preoccupation or vigilance or the state of aggression and violence, which are directly rela...

2006

This document is the author's final manuscript version of the book section, incorporating any revisions agreed during the review process. Some differences between this version and the publisher's version may remain. You are advised to consult the publisher's version if you wish to cite from it.

2007

Executive Summary 1. This report aims to provide a broad overview of the research literature concerned with the impact of the media on children and young people. It focuses primarily on computer games and the internet, although there is some discussion of research on 'older'media, particularly television. In line with the remit of the Byron Review, the report concentrates on harmful effects; although there is some consideration of beneficial effects as well.