The influence of sources in violent news on fright and worry responses of children in the Netherlands
Children display fright and worry responses to violent news. Including involved children, non-involved children or experts as sources in children’s news is assumed to reduce these negative effects. However, exemplification theory gives reason to question whether particularly the use of involved children indeed has a reassuring effect. To test this, an experiment was conducted among 237 children (8–13 y/o). They were randomly exposed to a news video containing (1) involved children as source, (2) non-involved children, or (3) adult experts. Fright and worry responses were measured both before a... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2022 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Kleemans , M , Janssen , L T , Anschütz , D J & Buijzen , M 2022 , ' The influence of sources in violent news on fright and worry responses of children in the Netherlands ' , Journal of Children and Media , vol. 16 , no. 1 , pp. 134-143 . https://doi.org/10.1080/17482798.2021.1927125 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27225884 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://pure.eur.nl/en/publications/d6f098de-c986-4f74-86b6-b0e0668dacf1 |