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Externalizing Behaviors and Television Viewing in Children of Low-Income Minority Parents
- Source :
- Clinical Pediatrics. 40:337-341
- Publication Year :
- 2001
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 2001.
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Abstract
- The parents of 151 children, ages 4-16 years, attending the pediatric outpatient clinic of an urban hospital were surveyed to determine if aggressive behavior among children of low literacy and low-income parents is related to excessive television viewing or to sociological variables such as ethnicity/race, education, occupation, and parents' marital status. The survey consisted of 22 questions about the ethnicity, marital status, education, and occupation of the parent, the television viewing behavior of the child, and the externalizing behavior scale of the Child Behavior Checklist of Achenbach (CBC). The television viewing habits of children in this study were not significantly different from viewing habits reported in national surveys of the US population. T scores in the aggression scale of CBC were unrelated to the hours of television watched by children and the control of viewing by the parent but were significantly associated with the employment and marital status of the mother. Children of unemployed and single mothers had higher externalizing-behavior scores, suggesting that family ecological variables may have more influence on children's behavior than the duration of television viewing.
- Subjects :
- Male
Gerontology
050402 sociology
Adolescent
Population
Poison control
Aggression Scale
Violence
Developmental psychology
0504 sociology
Humans
Medicine
Outpatient clinic
Child
Child Behavior Checklist
education
Poverty
Socioeconomic status
Analysis of Variance
education.field_of_study
Cultural Characteristics
business.industry
05 social sciences
050301 education
Hispanic or Latino
Single mothers
United States
Aggression
Personality Development
Child, Preschool
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
Marital status
Female
Television
business
0503 education
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 19382707 and 00099228
- Volume :
- 40
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Clinical Pediatrics
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....8371af49b7df579d4818269b8b71c8a4