Comer Jonathan S, Furr Jami M, Beidas Rinad S, Weiner Courtney L, Kendall Philip C
Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University/NYSPI, Division of Child Psychiatry, New York, NY 10032, USA.
J Consult Clin Psychol. 2008 Aug;76(4):568-78. doi: 10.1037/0022-006X.76.4.568.
This study examined associations between televised news regarding risk for future terrorism and youth outcomes and investigated the effects of training mothers in an empirically based approach to addressing such news with children. This approach--Coping and Media Literacy (CML)--emphasized modeling, media literacy, and contingent reinforcement and was compared via randomized design to Discussion as Usual (DAU). Ninety community youth (aged 7-13 years) and their mothers viewed a televised news clip about the risk of future terrorism, and threat perceptions and state anxiety were assessed preclip, postclip, and postdiscussion. Children responded to the clip with elevated threat perceptions and anxiety. Children of CML-trained mothers exhibited lower threat perceptions than DAU youth at postclip and at postdiscussion. Additionally, CML-trained mothers exhibited lower threat perceptions and state anxiety at postclip and postdiscussion than did DAU mothers. Moreover, older youth responded to the clip with greater societal threat perception than did younger youth. Findings document associations between terrorism-related news, threat perceptions, and anxiety and support the utility of providing parents with strategies for addressing news with children. Implications and research suggestions are discussed.
本研究考察了关于未来恐怖主义风险的电视新闻与青少年结果之间的关联，并调查了以基于实证的方法培训母亲如何与孩子谈论此类新闻的效果。这种方法——应对与媒体素养（CML）——强调示范、媒体素养和情境强化，并通过随机设计与常规讨论（DAU）进行比较。90名社区青少年（7至13岁）及其母亲观看了一段关于未来恐怖主义风险的电视新闻片段，并在观看片段前、观看片段后和讨论后评估了威胁感知和状态焦虑。孩子们对该片段的反应是威胁感知和焦虑加剧。接受CML培训的母亲的孩子在观看片段后和讨论后的威胁感知低于DAU组的青少年。此外，接受CML培训的母亲在观看片段后和讨论后的威胁感知和状态焦虑低于DAU组的母亲。此外，年龄较大的青少年对该片段的社会威胁感知高于年龄较小的青少年。研究结果记录了与恐怖主义相关的新闻、威胁感知和焦虑之间的关联，并支持为父母提供与孩子谈论新闻的策略的实用性。文中讨论了研究的意义和建议。
