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Thesis
Childhood Development and Media Use: A Literature Review of the Effects of Media on Children's Physical and Psychosocial Development
Washington State University
Master of Nursing (MN), Washington State University
08/2011
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/3093
Abstract
Television, computers, and video games are among the most widely used media activities, which engage children and adolescents for increasing amounts of time. There is a sharp increase in both the time spent and the numbers of children who use media over the past 10 years. Parents, educators, and health care providers must understand the effects that media has on childhood development and learn ways to moderate negative effects and maximize positive effects. This literature review seeks to identify the physical and psychosocial effects that media has on children and the variables of media use. Variables that effect media use by children, such as age, gender, time, and content of media, are teased out of the literature to identify those that to lead to health consequences. The three theoretical frameworks chosen for the paper are Social Learning Theory (SLT), Message Interpretation Process Model (MIP), and Displacement Theory (DT). The article offers recommendations to parents and health care providers (HCP) for children's media use. Suggestions are based on policy statements by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF).
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- Title
- Childhood Development and Media Use: A Literature Review of the Effects of Media on Children's Physical and Psychosocial Development
- Creators
- Brett Douglas O'Connor
- Contributors
- Melvin Haberman (Advisor)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Research Projects, College of Nursing
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Nursing (MN), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University; Spokane, Washington
- Identifiers
- 99900590528601842
- Copyright
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us; Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US)
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Thesis