Comer Jonathan S, Furr Jami M, Beidas Rinad S, Babyar Heather M, Kendall Philip C
Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA.
J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol. 2008 Jul;37(3):622-30. doi: 10.1080/15374410802148145.
This study examined children's media use (i.e., amount of television and Internet usage) and relationships to children's perceptions of societal threat and personal vulnerability. The sample consisted of 90 community youth aged 7 to 13 years (M = 10.8; 52.2% male) from diverse economic backgrounds. Analyses found children's television use to be associated with elevated perceptions of personal vulnerability to world threats (i.e., crime, terrorism, earthquakes, hurricanes, and floods). An interactive model of television use and child anxiety in accounting for children's personal threat perceptions was supported, in which the strength of television consumption in predicting children's personal threat perceptions was greater for children with greater anxiety. Relationships were found neither between children's Internet use and threat perceptions nor between media use and perceptions of societal threat.
本研究调查了儿童的媒体使用情况（即电视和互联网使用量）以及与儿童对社会威胁和个人易受伤害性认知之间的关系。样本包括90名7至13岁的社区青少年（平均年龄M = 10.8岁；男性占52.2%），他们来自不同的经济背景。分析发现，儿童观看电视与对世界威胁（即犯罪、恐怖主义、地震、飓风和洪水）的个人易受伤害性认知升高有关。一个关于电视使用和儿童焦虑在解释儿童个人威胁认知方面的交互模型得到了支持，即对于焦虑程度较高的儿童，电视消费在预测儿童个人威胁认知方面的作用更强。研究发现，儿童的互联网使用与威胁认知之间以及媒体使用与社会威胁认知之间均不存在关联。
