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Huesmann et al. (2003) - Coggle Diagram
Huesmann et al. (2003)
Aim
To investigate the relationship between children's exposure to TV violence and later aggressive and violent behaviour in young adulthood.
Method
Longitudinal study, including a meta-analysis
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The follow-up study was conducted on the same individuals, now as young adults, in 1992.
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Results
For both male and female participants, childhood TV-violence viewing correlated significantly with young adult aggression 15 years later. Furthermore, childhood perceptions that TV-violence reflects real life and childhood identification with same-sex aggressive TV characters significantly correlated with adult aggression 15 years later.
Parent factors play a role in influencing both aggression and TV habits. However, the results suggest that the parent factors probably do not account by themselves for the longitudinal relations between TV-violence viewing and later aggression.
Conclusion
Social learning appeared to account for aggressive behaviour in young adulthood, as a result of TV-violence viewing, and there were no gender differences in the findings.
Strengths
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The analysis included controls for socioeconomic status, intellectual ability and a range of parent factors.
Supports Bandura's findings, and social learning theory in general.
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Limitations
The study was based in Chicago, in an individualist culture, so results may not be generalisable to other cultural contexts.