Department of Psychology, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ 07102, USA.
J Youth Adolesc. 2009 Mar;38(3):417-28. doi: 10.1007/s10964-008-9335-2. Epub 2008 Sep 9.
The impact of exposure to violence in the media on the long-term development and short-term expression of aggressive behavior has been well documented. However, gaps in this literature remain, and in particular the role of violent media exposure in shaping violent and other serious antisocial behavior has not been investigated. Further, studies of violent media effects typically have not sampled from populations with confirmed histories of violent and/or nonviolent antisocial behavior. In this study, we analyzed data on 820 youth, including 390 juvenile delinquents and 430 high school students, to examine the relation of violent media use to involvement in violence and general aggression. Using criterion scores developed through cross-informant modeling of data from self, parent/guardian, and teacher/staff reports, we observed that childhood and adolescent violent media preferences contributed significantly to the prediction of violence and general aggression from cumulative risk totals. Findings represent a new and important direction for research on the role of violent media use in the broader matrix of risk factors for youth violence.
媒体暴力暴露对攻击行为的长期发展和短期表达的影响已经得到充分证明。然而，该文献仍存在空白，特别是暴力媒体暴露在塑造暴力和其他严重反社会行为方面的作用尚未得到研究。此外，暴力媒体影响的研究通常没有从有确凿暴力和/或非暴力反社会行为史的人群中抽样。在这项研究中，我们分析了 820 名青少年的数据，包括 390 名少年犯和 430 名高中生，以研究暴力媒体使用与暴力和一般攻击行为的关系。我们使用通过自我、父母/监护人以及教师/工作人员报告数据的跨信息源建模制定的标准分数，观察到童年和青少年时期对暴力媒体的偏好显著有助于从累积风险总数预测暴力和一般攻击行为。研究结果代表了暴力媒体使用在青年暴力的更广泛风险因素矩阵中的作用研究的一个新的重要方向。
