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Showing 1 to 20 of 65 for “"TV viewing"”.
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Sports television viewing and value acceptance
… personally. It was found that almost half of the viewing by respondents of television was watching sports. By watching these events, respondents were able to see these values first-hand and then personally accept them into their own values.</p>
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A Symbolic Interactionist Approach to Child Television Viewing
Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-13T15:18:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4848 bytes, checksum: 96035ab3f5e1c23cc7138a224ce498bd (MD5) 7616133.PDF: 4862168 bytes, checksum: 096c4d51438aeab63ca8dd111d82281d (MD5) Previous issue date: 1976
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Disability and difference: Adolescents' interpretations based on television viewing
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The Relationship of Television Viewing at Home and Toddlers' Language Skills
… the relationship between toddlers' television viewing at home and their language skills. Two other variables, family socioeconomic status and mothers' levels of education, were included in order to examine if these two variables and the amount of toddlers' TV viewing at home were related to …
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Television Viewing Behavior of Negro and White Children in Athens, Georgia
Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-12T21:39:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4848 bytes, checksum: 96035ab3f5e1c23cc7138a224ce498bd (MD5) 7000846.PDF: 3234325 bytes, checksum: 56622e34a2d257cf550072d7f36b93be (MD5) Previous issue date: 1969
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Back talk : an auditory environment for co-presence in television viewing
… no longer restricted to same-time or same-place viewing. However, the experience of watching content with a group is inherently a sociable one, and often desirable despite the physical distribution of group members. This thesis introduces Back Talk, a system designed to create a sociable …
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The impact of television viewing on young adults' stereotypes towards Hispanic Americans
… study examined the influence of television viewing and interpersonal contact on young adults' stereotypes towards Hispanic Americans. White American undergraduate students (N = 231) at a small private university in the western United States completed an anonymous self-administered group …
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An Examination of Children's Television Viewing and Children's Perception of Their Academics
… a significant relationship between television viewing and perception of academic achievement for children. The hypothesis that guided this study was that there would be a significant relationship between children's amount of television viewing and the perception of their academic achievement. …
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Minority Stress and TV Viewing Behaviors among Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Adults
… the relationships between minority stressors and TV consumption behaviors (i.e., parasocial relationships and viewing frequency) among adult LGB TV viewers. Participants (N = 340) identified predominately as White (52.9%) and female (72.1%), and the largest group identified as bisexual (44.4%). …
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Television Viewing Habits, Body Mass Index, Dietary Behaviors and Physical Activity Among University Students
<p>This study examined the relationship between TV-viewing, BMI, dietary behaviors and physical activity in a purposive sample of university students. Twenty-three items from the National College Health Risk Behavior Survey were used. For data analysis, students were placed into dichotomous …
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The effect of television viewing on college students : an EEG analysis of cerebral asymmetry
<p>The controversy over the effects of television viewing on human behavior has drawn a great deal of attention over the last decade. This study sought to investigate this area by looking at cortical response to television viewing.</p> <p>The subjects in the study consisted of 24 men and 24 women …
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Pro-social and anti-social effects of television viewing on adolescents: Speculations based on family situation comedy content
… behavior in adolescents due to television viewing; "The Cosby Show" and "Roseanne" were chosen in this research sample because previous research finds that family oriented situation comedies are among children's favorite television programs. Ten episodes of each series were recorded and …
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Reality television and its impact on women's body image
… just the amount of television viewed, but the viewing of appearance focused shows that affected body image. Schooler, Ward, Merriwether and Caruthers (2004) came to the conclusion that women's viewing of shows with predominantly white casts lead to greater body dissatisfaction. To date, no …
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A persuasive television remote control for the promotion of health and well-being
… research has linked excessive television viewing with both obesity [2] and Type 2 diabetes [3, 4]. This work describes the design, implementation, and evaluation of a ubiquitous computing system intended to simultaneously decrease a user's television viewing while increasing his or her …
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Sedentary Behaviour and Health among Young People
… a sample of children and adolescents. Television viewing predicted cardio-metabolic risk factors independent of moderate-to vigorous-intensity physical activity. No associations were observed for the other sedentary behaviour components. Manuscript three examined whether the relationship between …
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A Study of Some Effects of Commercial Television on Seventh and Eighth Grade Students in the Chehalis Public Schools
… was to investigate some effects of television viewing on the seventh and eighth grade students of Chehalis, Washington.
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