The Influence of Television Viewing on Family Interactions

A Contextualist Framework

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2345997
AutoresGene H Brody (0000-0002-2244-6797, University of Georgia), Zolinda Stoneman (University of Georgia)
Año1983
Volumen4
Número2
Páginas329-348
Fecha de publicación1983-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Family Issues (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0192-513X • E-ISSN: 1552-5481
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/019251383004002005
OpenAlexW2132629641
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas33

A contextual framework for studying the influence of television viewing on family interactions was described. Family interactions in this context are hypothesized to vary as a function of program salience for each family member. Salience is determined by a combination of person and context variables. The person variables are information-processing skills, role expectations, state and emotional factors, and the interest of the viewer in the program content. The context variables are competing activities, arrangement of physical milieu, persons present, and perceptual program features. Salience of the television program is hypothesized to have an impact on amount of family interactions in the spouse, sibling, and parent-child family subsystems. To the extent that a program is judged to be salient, lower levels of contingent responsiveness are expected between family members within and between subsystems. Low levels of contingent responsiveness are expected to depress amounts of family interaction

Cognitive psychology · Context effect · Developmental psychology · Perception · Salient · Sibling · Spouse · Child Development and Digital Technology · Computer Science · Impact of Technology on Adolescents · Media Influence and Health · Psychology · Social Psychology