Communication Research

Parents' Control over Children's Exposure to TV

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Fatemeh Javadi
Banafsheh Eqbali
https://doi.org/10.22082/cr.2007.24297
Abstract

The present article is based on a research carried out in IRIB Research Center in 2007. It aims to investigate the extent to which parents control children's exposure to visual media particularly TV.
- The research concluded that 70 percent of parents adopted an active approach, approach for controlling their children's exposure to TV.
- The results also showed that 68 percent of respondents (parents) controlled the contents of the programs, to different visual media (except for TV) "much" or "very much".
- The research further indicated that 42 percent of parents checked "much" or "very much" the video games CDs after buying or renting them.

Keywords

Visual Media
children and teenagers
Parents
interference in exposure
styles of control

 

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  • Receive Date 08 August 2007
  • Revise Date 15 December 2007
  • Accept Date 25 February 2008

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