TV Violence Study
Violence on Television: How It Affects Today's Youth My partner and I are both seniors attending Union High School. This upcoming summer will be my third year life guarding at the Columbian Swim Club, in Union. My partner has worked in the building next door, the Boys & Girls Club, for the past two years. Both of our jobs are centered on children. We work with them on a daily bases and know a lot about their actions. As a result, we chose to do our project on a topic relating to today's youth. Anthony and I came up with a problem that concerns many parents. It seems as though violence plays a role in the lives of many people. Even innocent children are affected by the negative things that go on in the huge world we live in. Television violence is often overlooked because of its ability to retain children's attention. Countless mothers and fathers put their children in front of the television so they can have time to themselves. As a result, the kids are subjected to unnecessary media violence. Anthony and I feel as thought this violence has a great effect on the children's lives. We decided to further investigate this hypothesis.
The kids who watch violent shows, such as Power Rangers, Jerry Springer, OZ, and WWF tend to act violently towards their family and friends, while the kids who watch "family-type" shows, such as Rugrats and Doug don't act violent. The questionnaire was anonymous so that the children would answer honestly. 62% of kids who watch violent shows act violent, while only 38% are non-violent. A lot of the older kids put down their homework to watch violent TV shows. 56% of all the children questioned would stop doing their homework to watch a violent TV show and 44% would not. Part IV - Date Analysis/FindingsThe results of the project show an obvious correlation between TV violence and children's actions toward people in their lives. Another possibility could be that the survey did not keep their attention, and they were just randomly guessing at the questions. More specifically, every child who watches WWF or OZ, the two most aggressive shows listed on our questionnaire, acts violent. Even at those ages, discretion should be used. The age categories were broken down into three groups. When the clock strikes 9:00, very small children should not even have access to the channel changer. Although they are older and more mature, they admitted to being violent as a result of the programs they watch on TV. ------------------------------------------------------------------------**Bibliography**none. As stated before, the younger children do not seem to be affected by the violence. Almost every channel "rates" their shows before they begin by flashing an age on the bottom of the screen.
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