Television Exposure, Parents' Precautionary Warnings, and Young Adults' Perceptions of Crime  

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Busselle, Rick W.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Communication Research vol. 30 no. 5 (Oct. 2003), page 530-556.
Topik: family communication; crime perceptions; television exposure; cultivation
Fulltext: Vol 30, no 5, page 530-556.pdf (174.04KB)

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Crime-related television viewing may influence not only the viewer but also individuals with whom the viewer communicates. A matched sample of parents and their first semester college-age children were surveyed independently (N = 178 pairs)to test a model linking parents’ crime-related television viewing with their college-age children’s perceptions of crime prevalence.The model identifies parents’ precautionary warnings as influenced by their own crime viewing and as influencing their college-age children’s crime-prevalence estimates. Results indicate the relationship between parents’ crime viewing and their issuance of precautionary warnings is mediated by their own estimates of crime prevalence and that parents’ precautionary warnings influence young adults’ perceptions of crime prevalence. Young adults’ gender influences both the frequency of parental warnings and young adults’ perceptions of how frequently they were warned by parents but appears not to influence perceptions of crime directly.

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