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Sports television viewing and value acceptance
… values while watching sports programming on television. Sports are seen as a huge influence in our lives and helping to spread that influence and bring the games right to our living rooms is television. A total of 360 surveys were collected from three universities, one in the West, one in the …
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A Symbolic Interactionist Approach to Child Television Viewing
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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
… to explore 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 …
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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
<p>This 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
… if there was 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 …
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Minority Stress and TV Viewing Behaviors among Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Adults
… 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%). Participants completed self-report measures of prejudice events …
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Television Viewing Habits, Body Mass Index, Dietary Behaviors and Physical Activity Among University Students
… 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
Researchers theorize that verbal insults within television family interactions may create images of dysfunctional families that serve as a paradigm for young viewers. This study conducted a content analysis of television programming and speculated about the possible development of antisocial …
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Reality television and its impact on women's body image
… research has found that both print media and television may affect the body image of young women. Tiggerman and Pickering (1996) found that it was not just the amount of television viewed, but the viewing of appearance focused shows that affected body image. Schooler, Ward, Merriwether and …
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A persuasive television remote control for the promotion of health and well-being
… In the present day, daily "screen time" with televisions and other entertainment systems continues to rise [1]. Within this climate of escalating media consumption, experts in the medical community have repeatedly voiced concerns about the public health crisis that looms over a largely …
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Sedentary Behaviour and Health among Young People
… factors in 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 …
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A Study of Some Effects of Commercial Television on Seventh and Eighth Grade Students in the Chehalis Public Schools
… of this study was to investigate some effects of television viewing on the seventh and eighth grade students of Chehalis, Washington.
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