Effects of Television Programme on Children

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dc.contributor.authorAlay Ahmad
dc.date.accessioned2025-03-20T05:26:35Z
dc.date.available2025-03-20T05:26:35Z
dc.date.issued1978
dc.description.abstractThe purpose of the present investigation to study the effects of television programmes of varying types ahd spot messages upon school children, Ninetyfour TV and fifty non-TV children of grades III-x, and ranging in ages between seven to fifteen years were studied through open-ended interview. Pifty fathers of TV. children were also interviewed, Content analysis of these interviews was then carried out. All the interviewees belonged to the educated upper-middle class, residing on the University of Peshawar campus, .A comparison was made between the children's behaviour before they possessed TV, and their behaviour after they had viewed it for at least a period of 12 months... The behaviour of TV children was also compared with that of the non-TV.ones belonging to the same population and during the same period, In the case of TV children, the following variables were studied: TV programme preference, and its causes; TV viewing hours; learning from TV programmes and advertisements;..meeting place of the family; frequency and nature of communication with the family members while watching TV. programmes; reactions to the visit of friends during TV viewing; preference between movies and TV programmes, Seth the TV and non-TV children were studied in respect of the followiic variables: Total amount of time spent on meeting friends outside TV hours? play; radio; hours of sleeping. and rising; home study; effects of TV upon reading habits of magazines, books, newspaper; and English vocabulary. Results show that social drama wes most favoured by the girls. Crime and violence programmes were most favoured by the boys. Their fathers, however, regarded crime and violence as unsuitable programmes for their children. Documentaries and interviews were the least favoured programmes for both, The TV children preferred programmes heaving partial-fantasy contents. Humour wes the major factors of programme preference, Children watched tV for an average of 18.09 hours weekly during winter and 18.01 hours weekly during summer, Another interesting observation was that even though the entire family wetched TV programmes together, there wes hardly any verbal interaction among its members, Results also indicate that interactions with visiting friends are inversely related to the decree of programme preference, Results show that TV children eferred TV programmes as compared to movies, Furthermore, results show that televiewing reduced hours of meeting with friends, play, radio and study. TV viewing also adversely affected the reading habits of magazines, books; and newspapers, As compared with non-TV children, the TV ones were found to be late bed-goers and late risers and the latter sleep for lesser time, A large majority of fathers of TV children reported that the letter had learnt some undesirable behaviour from TV programmes and snot messages, At the same time, however, they as well as their children thought that TV had a positive effect on general information and vocabulary. The latter was also confirmed through the WIS Vocebulery Scale
dc.identifier.urihttp://repository.uop.edu.pk/123456789/425
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherDepartment of Psychology, University of Peshawar. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
dc.relation.ispartofseriesTh-28
dc.titleEffects of Television Programme on Children
dc.typeThesis
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