Television Effects on Children

Introduction

The problem of violence in the media was the focus of attention for several years, is now especially the impact of television, was still being felt worldwide. Hundreds of studies on the effects of TV violence on children and adolescents have shown that children may be: to become "immune" to fear of violence gradually accept violence as a way to solve problems, to imitate the violence they watch on television, and to identify certain characters, victims and / or victimizers (Barlow, 89).

Discussion

School-age children engaged in acts of violent television, and not to the contents of the violence. Watching the high level of television action can also make children more aggressive. School-age children were found to behave more aggressively than usual in their play after watching high-action television, without any violence in it at all (Cline, 360). It was found that a high level of excitation is only to increase their aggression, and that vivid formal production levels of excitation. In addition, it has been demonstrated that violent content produces substantial effects beyond those caused by emotion alone (Cline, 361).

Watch TV, especially late at night, this is related to poor sleep and less sleep in school children. The emotional and psychological stress caused by the shows can prevent children getting to sleep, and may also cause nightmares. (David, 2004), in turn, less of sleep can cause children to be less alert at school, but can also lead to poor school work.

"In a study reported in the journal Pediatrics showed that viewing the entire two hours of television per day also causes significant sleep problems in school-age children (Cline, 362)."

Apparently, these media have a significant influence on children behavior, we can observe that in their effort to imitate their preferred rock stars dressing in a style and system of children to play games, imitating their favorite cartoon characters or super heroes. Studies have shown that a wide range of television viewing may be associated with aggressive behavior, poor performance, premature sexuality, plumpness, and the use of drugs or alcohol (Cline, 362).

Most psychologists believe that the media themselves are not the only problem of violence on children, but, in particular, Dr. Leonard Eron made a 22-year study of children as they grew in age from eight to adult to demonstrate his theory that TV has a greater impact on children than most people believe. The effect is shocking. These studies concluded that the best interpreter of a thorough adulthood violence and aggression is not linked to violence habitat, shortage, poor school performance, single-parent homes or in the real-life violence, on heavy volume of television violence. But, of course, not every young person is pretentious (Cline, 363).

The reason for this is that children with fewer natural violent tendencies, to a lesser extent, exaggerated on television violence, in other words, if the child is clearly aggressive, violent TV programs tend to think of these traits. Eron also became clear that the content of the television do not want to have a ...