Kristen Harrison
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3620544 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Kristen Harrison |
| NOMBRES | Kristen |
| APELLIDO | Harrison |
| FIRMA | HARRISON K |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5630-3102 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 33 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 168 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1997 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
“Actually an ED and not just a quirky aspect of autism”
Restrictive eating disorders (EDs) have among the highest mortality rate of any psychiatric disorder. To date, little research has investigated the role of digital media in sharing ED experiences and promoting recovery for autistic individuals, despite high autism rates among those with EDs and the potential for social media (SM) to provide resources and support for adolescent girls and young women living with EDs. Given this gap, we undertook an…
Measuring Gaze
Empowerment-themed advertisements (ETAs) often pair ostensibly empowering narratives with objectification imagery. Existing research demonstrates that women do not report feeling empowered after viewing ETAs but cannot confirm why. In this study, 186 female participants were randomly assigned to view captions and/or photos from ETAs while their eye movements were recorded. The empowerment-themed captions increased women’s felt empowerment when pr…
Empowerment-Themed Advertising Effects
Advertisements that ostensibly serve to empower women have become popular in recent years, but recent research calls into question the psychological effectiveness of these advertisements. While seemingly progressive, empowerment-themed advertisements (ETAs) often pair empowerment-themed narratives with objectifying visuals despite the established harmful effects of objectification in media. Though empowerment and objectification intuitively seem …
Parent Reports of Children’s Fright Reactions to News of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Between April 17 and 29, 2020, we conducted a nationwide online survey of parents of children between the ages of 3 and 17 years (N = 1560). A majority of children were reported to be negatively emotionally affected (frightened, disturbed, or upset) by news coverage of COVID-19. Every stress symptom asked about (including nervousness, crying, and sleep problems) was dramatically more prevalent among children frightened than not frightened by the …
Media sensory curation and family media conflict
Media sensory curation theory conceptualizes sensory regulation within the built environment as a gratification of electronic media use and predictor of parent-child conflict over children’s media use. This paper replicates an initial survey of caregivers of children ages 3 to 14 with an independent replication survey of N = 754. As in the original study, media sensory curation was higher among children with sensory diagnoses (e.g., autism, ADHD)…
Free, appropriate, public, and educational? Screen-schooling U.S. children with disabilities during the 2020 pandemic
I was born in 1969, the year Sesame Street debuted. I love and respect educational screen media. However, screens exist in environments that modify the effectiveness of screen-delivered education f
Emerging Adults and Gender Norms
Rude or shrewd? Reframing media devices as care structures and child use as accommodation
Communication research has traditionally defined its subject as language and the chief gratification of media use as the exchange of information between senders and receivers. However, information exchange falls short as an explanation for child media practices like those described in Gaming Disorder, recently classified as a disease by the World Health Organization. Why have devices become so enmeshed in children’s lives, both inside and outside…
Familial correlates of US preschooler physical activity
The preschool years set a precedent for lifelong habits integral to health. This research brief investigated how familial correlates within a household context, such as television use, BMI, and feeding practices, are related to child physical activity (CPA). Parents of preschoolers (N = 278, average age 40–76 months) completed survey measures of CPA, child and parent television use, BMI (height and weight), child control of feeding practices, and…
Empowerment Sold Separately
Television use and family mealtimes among a sample of US families with preschoolers
Research has connected family mealtimes with nutrition, child development, and child academic performance. However, it is not clear how television is associated with the quality of family mealtimes, especially mealtime ritualization (MR), mealtime harmony (MH), and child food intake. Parents of preschoolers (N = 278, average age 40–76 months) completed questionnaire measures of television use, MR, MH, and dietary intake. Controlling familial demo…
Toward a Multi-Dimensional Model of Adolescent Romantic Parasocial Attachment
Relationships with media figures—referred to as parasocial relationships—provide a means for adolescents to explore and define their romantic and sexual identities (Boon & Lomore, 2001; Engle & Kasser, 2005; Karniol, 2001). However, more often than not, adolescents’ romantic attachments to media figures are ignored or dismissed as frivolous in the scholarly literature on youth development (Caughey, 1984; Jenkins, 1992; Willis, 1972). In this pape…
Maternal beliefs about television and parental mediation in a low-income United States sample
Low-income children are at greater risk for excess screen time and negative correlates associated with screen media use. The goal of this study is to increase our understanding of low-income mothers' beliefs and practices around their children's television (TV) use (parental mediation). We administered semi-structured interviews to 296 low-income mothers of children ages four to eight years old in the United States. Five themes emerged from the q…
Development and validation of the Problematic Media Use Measure
Although problematic media use among adolescents is of wide interest, less is known regarding problematic media use among younger children. The current study reports on the development and validation of a parent-report measure of one potential aspect of children's problematic use-screen media addiction-via the Problematic Media Use Measure (PMUM). Items were based on the nine criteria for Internet Gaming Disorder in the DSM-5. The first study des…
Food brand recognition and BMI in preschoolers
The placemat protocol
Media and the Family
Thanks to them for their intellectual midwifery and to journal co-editor Dafna Lemish for her guidance and patience.Additional informationNotes on contributorsKristen HarrisonKristen Harrison is Professor of Communication Studies and Director of the Media Psychology Program at the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan. She co-founded the STRONG Kids Program on early childhood obesity at the University of Illinois and now runs the …
Parent and Child Media Exposure, Preschooler Dietary Intake, and Preschooler Healthy-Meal Schemas in the Context of Food Insecurity
Media exposure is correlated with child obesity, yet the family behaviors underlying this link remain poorly understood. Using data from a sample of U.S. parents and their preschoolers, this study assessed parent and child exposure to 5 different media along with child dietary intake. Child healthy-meal schemas were measured with the Placemat Protocol, a novel play-based pretend meal assembly activity. Child and parent commercial TV viewing predi…
Gender, Race, and Risk
Sex worker experience of risk (e.g., physical violence or rape) is shaped by race, gender, and context. For web-based sex workers, experience of risk is comparatively minimal; what is unclear is how web-based sex workers manage risk and if online advertising plays a role in risk management. Building on intersectionality theory and research exploring risk management in sex work, we content-analyzed 600 escort advertisements from Backpage.com ( htt…
US Preschoolers' Media Exposure and Dietary Habits
A potential barrier to healthy eating in childhood is media marketing of obesogenic foods, yet little research has linked young children's media and dietary habits. This study reports data from 423 parents and 354 2- to 4-year-old children in the Midwestern United States, from the first wave of a 3-wave prospective panel study. Variables included family demographics, child media exposure, parent mediation of TV, child dietary habits, and child BM…
Communication and Mental Health
The Communication Monographs Cafe is once again open for business. After stimulating conversations about social justice and public scholarship (Volume 78, Issue 2), about communication and material
A Content Analysis of Female Body Imagery in Video Games
Television Exposure and Disordered Eating Among Children
Although the link between media consumption and eating disorders has been widely studied, relatively little is known about the development of this link in childhood. A longitudinal panel survey of 315 White and Black preadolescent boys and girls revealed that television exposure, after controlling for age, perceived body size, selective exposure to ideal-body television, and baseline disordered eating, significantly predicted disordered eating 1 …
Scope of Self
Identity complexity has been associated with resilience, such that people with multidimensional self-concepts appear to suffer fewer emotional and physical health problems in response to stress. Adolescence is a time to build identities and manage new stressors; therefore, self-complexity is an important topic for research concerning adolescents. Studies have explored media effects on the content of the self-concept but have largely ignored its s…
Media Exposure, Current and Future Body Ideals, and Disordered Eating Among Preadolescent Girls
Television Viewers' Ideal Body Proportions
Throwing Like a Girl
Objectification theory posits that Western culture socializes girls and women to self-objectify by adopting a third-person perspective on their bodies. Feminist philosopher Iris Young (1990) argued that such self-objectification accounts for 'throwing like a girl' and other constrained and ineffective motor performances. The authors' hypothesis was that higher self-objectification among adolescent girls would predict poorer throwing performance. …
Nutritional Content of Foods Advertised During the Television Programs Children Watch Most
Objectives. We sought to code food (nutritional content and food type and eating occasion) and character (cartoon and live action) attributes of food advertisements airing during television programs heavily viewed by children, and to represent and evaluate the nutritional content of advertised foods in terms of the nutrition facts label. Methods. Food advertisements (n=426) aimed at general and child audiences were coded for food and character at…
The Problem of "Us" Versus "Them" and Aids Stigma
This article has two goals. The first is to consider what the social-psychological literature on social identity, ingroup-outgroup perception, and prejudice contributes to the understanding of AIDS-related stigma. The second is to address ways to make the world more comfortable and compassionate for people with AIDS (PWAs). At the core of AIDS-related stigma is the perception that PWAs are members of an outgroup threatening one's social identity …
A Content Analysis of Female Body Imagery in Video Games
Gender, Race, and Risk
Sex worker experience of risk (e.g., physical violence or rape) is shaped by race, gender, and context. For web-based sex workers, experience of risk is comparatively minimal; what is unclear is how web-based sex workers manage risk and if online advertising plays a role in risk management. Building on intersectionality theory and research exploring risk management in sex work, we content-analyzed 600 escort advertisements from Backpage.com ( htt…
Empowerment Sold Separately
Media Exposure, Current and Future Body Ideals, and Disordered Eating Among Preadolescent Girls
Scope of Self
Identity complexity has been associated with resilience, such that people with multidimensional self-concepts appear to suffer fewer emotional and physical health problems in response to stress. Adolescence is a time to build identities and manage new stressors; therefore, self-complexity is an important topic for research concerning adolescents. Studies have explored media effects on the content of the self-concept but have largely ignored its s…
Emerging Adults and Gender Norms
Development and validation of the Problematic Media Use Measure
Although problematic media use among adolescents is of wide interest, less is known regarding problematic media use among younger children. The current study reports on the development and validation of a parent-report measure of one potential aspect of children's problematic use-screen media addiction-via the Problematic Media Use Measure (PMUM). Items were based on the nine criteria for Internet Gaming Disorder in the DSM-5. The first study des…
Toward a Multi-Dimensional Model of Adolescent Romantic Parasocial Attachment
Relationships with media figures—referred to as parasocial relationships—provide a means for adolescents to explore and define their romantic and sexual identities (Boon & Lomore, 2001; Engle & Kasser, 2005; Karniol, 2001). However, more often than not, adolescents’ romantic attachments to media figures are ignored or dismissed as frivolous in the scholarly literature on youth development (Caughey, 1984; Jenkins, 1992; Willis, 1972). In this pape…
The placemat protocol
Communication and Mental Health
The Communication Monographs Cafe is once again open for business. After stimulating conversations about social justice and public scholarship (Volume 78, Issue 2), about communication and material
The Relationship Between Media Consumption and Eating Disorders
This study examined the relationship between college women's media use and two sets of variables (disordered-eating symptomatology and a set of related variables, including body dissatisfaction and drive for thinness) and assessed the relationship between college men's media use and their endorsement of thinness for themselves and for women. We expected to find consumption of thinness-depicting and thinness-promoting TDP) media related to disorde…
The Problem of "Us" Versus "Them" and Aids Stigma
This article has two goals. The first is to consider what the social-psychological literature on social identity, ingroup-outgroup perception, and prejudice contributes to the understanding of AIDS-related stigma. The second is to address ways to make the world more comfortable and compassionate for people with AIDS (PWAs). At the core of AIDS-related stigma is the perception that PWAs are members of an outgroup threatening one's social identity …
The Body Electric
The aim of this study was to replicate survey research demonstrating a correlation between adults' thin-ideal media exposure and eating disorders (Harrison & Cantor, 1997) with a sample of 366 adolescents. Measures included interest in body-improvement media content, exposure to thin-ideal television and magazines, exposure to fat-character television, exposure to sports magazines, and eating-disorder symptomatology. Exposure to fat-character tel…
Women's Sports Media, Self-Objectification, and Mental Health in Black and White Adolescent Females
Recent surveys have suggested that sports media exposure may be linked to adolescents' body perceptions. This study tested this relationship from the perspective of objectification theory (Fredrickson & Roberts, 1997) by surveying and experimenting with 426 adolescent females aged 10–19. Sports magazine reading predicted greater body satisfaction among older adolescents, regardless of whether they participated in sports. Self-objectification in a…
Women's Sports Media, Self-Objectification, and Mental Health in Black and White Adolescent Females
Recent surveys have suggested that sports media exposure may be linked to adolescents' body perceptions. This study tested this relationship from the perspective of objectification theory (Fredrickson & Roberts, 1997) by surveying and experimenting with 426 adolescent females aged 10–19. Sports magazine reading predicted greater body satisfaction among older adolescents, regardless of whether they participated in sports. Self-objectification in a…
Television Viewers' Ideal Body Proportions
Nutritional Content of Foods Advertised During the Television Programs Children Watch Most
Objectives. We sought to code food (nutritional content and food type and eating occasion) and character (cartoon and live action) attributes of food advertisements airing during television programs heavily viewed by children, and to represent and evaluate the nutritional content of advertised foods in terms of the nutrition facts label. Methods. Food advertisements (n=426) aimed at general and child audiences were coded for food and character at…
Throwing Like a Girl
Objectification theory posits that Western culture socializes girls and women to self-objectify by adopting a third-person perspective on their bodies. Feminist philosopher Iris Young (1990) argued that such self-objectification accounts for 'throwing like a girl' and other constrained and ineffective motor performances. The authors' hypothesis was that higher self-objectification among adolescent girls would predict poorer throwing performance. …
Scope of Self
Identity complexity has been associated with resilience, such that people with multidimensional self-concepts appear to suffer fewer emotional and physical health problems in response to stress. Adolescence is a time to build identities and manage new stressors; therefore, self-complexity is an important topic for research concerning adolescents. Studies have explored media effects on the content of the self-concept but have largely ignored its s…
Media Exposure, Current and Future Body Ideals, and Disordered Eating Among Preadolescent Girls
Television Exposure and Disordered Eating Among Children
Although the link between media consumption and eating disorders has been widely studied, relatively little is known about the development of this link in childhood. A longitudinal panel survey of 315 White and Black preadolescent boys and girls revealed that television exposure, after controlling for age, perceived body size, selective exposure to ideal-body television, and baseline disordered eating, significantly predicted disordered eating 1 …
A Content Analysis of Female Body Imagery in Video Games
US Preschoolers' Media Exposure and Dietary Habits
A potential barrier to healthy eating in childhood is media marketing of obesogenic foods, yet little research has linked young children's media and dietary habits. This study reports data from 423 parents and 354 2- to 4-year-old children in the Midwestern United States, from the first wave of a 3-wave prospective panel study. Variables included family demographics, child media exposure, parent mediation of TV, child dietary habits, and child BM…
Communication and Mental Health
The Communication Monographs Cafe is once again open for business. After stimulating conversations about social justice and public scholarship (Volume 78, Issue 2), about communication and material
Media and the Family
Thanks to them for their intellectual midwifery and to journal co-editor Dafna Lemish for her guidance and patience.Additional informationNotes on contributorsKristen HarrisonKristen Harrison is Professor of Communication Studies and Director of the Media Psychology Program at the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan. She co-founded the STRONG Kids Program on early childhood obesity at the University of Illinois and now runs the …
Parent and Child Media Exposure, Preschooler Dietary Intake, and Preschooler Healthy-Meal Schemas in the Context of Food Insecurity
Media exposure is correlated with child obesity, yet the family behaviors underlying this link remain poorly understood. Using data from a sample of U.S. parents and their preschoolers, this study assessed parent and child exposure to 5 different media along with child dietary intake. Child healthy-meal schemas were measured with the Placemat Protocol, a novel play-based pretend meal assembly activity. Child and parent commercial TV viewing predi…
Gender, Race, and Risk
Sex worker experience of risk (e.g., physical violence or rape) is shaped by race, gender, and context. For web-based sex workers, experience of risk is comparatively minimal; what is unclear is how web-based sex workers manage risk and if online advertising plays a role in risk management. Building on intersectionality theory and research exploring risk management in sex work, we content-analyzed 600 escort advertisements from Backpage.com ( htt…
The placemat protocol
Maternal beliefs about television and parental mediation in a low-income United States sample
Low-income children are at greater risk for excess screen time and negative correlates associated with screen media use. The goal of this study is to increase our understanding of low-income mothers' beliefs and practices around their children's television (TV) use (parental mediation). We administered semi-structured interviews to 296 low-income mothers of children ages four to eight years old in the United States. Five themes emerged from the q…
Development and validation of the Problematic Media Use Measure
Although problematic media use among adolescents is of wide interest, less is known regarding problematic media use among younger children. The current study reports on the development and validation of a parent-report measure of one potential aspect of children's problematic use-screen media addiction-via the Problematic Media Use Measure (PMUM). Items were based on the nine criteria for Internet Gaming Disorder in the DSM-5. The first study des…
Food brand recognition and BMI in preschoolers
Television use and family mealtimes among a sample of US families with preschoolers
Research has connected family mealtimes with nutrition, child development, and child academic performance. However, it is not clear how television is associated with the quality of family mealtimes, especially mealtime ritualization (MR), mealtime harmony (MH), and child food intake. Parents of preschoolers (N = 278, average age 40–76 months) completed questionnaire measures of television use, MR, MH, and dietary intake. Controlling familial demo…
Toward a Multi-Dimensional Model of Adolescent Romantic Parasocial Attachment
Relationships with media figures—referred to as parasocial relationships—provide a means for adolescents to explore and define their romantic and sexual identities (Boon & Lomore, 2001; Engle & Kasser, 2005; Karniol, 2001). However, more often than not, adolescents’ romantic attachments to media figures are ignored or dismissed as frivolous in the scholarly literature on youth development (Caughey, 1984; Jenkins, 1992; Willis, 1972). In this pape…
Rude or shrewd? Reframing media devices as care structures and child use as accommodation
Communication research has traditionally defined its subject as language and the chief gratification of media use as the exchange of information between senders and receivers. However, information exchange falls short as an explanation for child media practices like those described in Gaming Disorder, recently classified as a disease by the World Health Organization. Why have devices become so enmeshed in children’s lives, both inside and outside…
Familial correlates of US preschooler physical activity
The preschool years set a precedent for lifelong habits integral to health. This research brief investigated how familial correlates within a household context, such as television use, BMI, and feeding practices, are related to child physical activity (CPA). Parents of preschoolers (N = 278, average age 40–76 months) completed survey measures of CPA, child and parent television use, BMI (height and weight), child control of feeding practices, and…
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