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ID168563
NAMEJan Van Den Bulck
GIVEN NAMESJan Van Den
FAMILY NAMEBulck
SIGNATUREVAN DEN BULCK J
AFFILIATIONSKU Leuven
ORCID0000-0003-0885-0854
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS35
TOTAL CITATIONS104
AUTHOR COUNT34
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1992
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX6
  • The International Encyclopedia of Media Psychology

    Open Access•David R Roskos-Ewoldsen, Chelly Maes et al.•BOOK•International Encyclopedia of…•2020

    info:eu-repo/semantics/published

  • Just One More Episode: Predictors of Procrastination with Television and Implications for Sleep Quality

    Liese Exelmans, Adrian Meier et al.•ARTICLE•Mass Communication & Society•2019•Cited by: 2•References: 16

    Sleep experts have raised concern over the effects of electronic media use on sleep. To date, few studies have looked beyond the effects of duration and frequency of media exposure or examined the underlying mechanisms of this association. As procrastinatory media use has been related to lower well-being, we used data from two survey studies (N1 = 821, N2 = 584) to investigate (a) predictors of procrastinatory TV viewing and (b) the link between …

  • When digital natives instruct digital immigrants: Active guidance of parental media use by children and conflict in the family

    Sara Nelissen, Jan Van Den Bulck•ARTICLE•Information Communication & Society•2018

    Based on the premise that children are active agents who influence their parents’ media use, this study investigated child–parent digital media guidance. Children often introduce new media into the family and influence parents’ media adoption and use. This study also investigated whether this child–parent digital media guidance is associated with media conflicts in the family. A cross-sectional survey was conducted among 187 parent–child dyads in…

  • The problem with our attitude: A meta-theoretical analysis of attitudinal media effects research

    Lennert Coenen, Jan Van Den Bulck•ARTICLE•Annals of the International…•2018•References: 18

    While most studies on attitudinal media effects are concerned with a comparable scientific question they do not always coincide in their theoretical approach. In the present paper, we show that this state of affairs has caused controversies about the meaning and testability of specific types of attitudinal media effects – in particular, framing, cultivation, priming, and persuasion effects. We argue that such disagreements are misguided and could…

  • Casual Sexual Scripts on the Screen: A Quantitative Content Analysis

    Open Access•Elisabeth Timmermans, Jan Van Den Bulck•ARTICLE•Archives of Sexual Behavior•2018•Cited by: 2•References: 76

    While existing content analyses have provided insightful information in terms of contextual factors and frequency of sexual behaviors, not much is known about the relational context in which sexual depictions generally occur. The current study addresses this void by employing content analytic methods to measure the frequency and context of depictions of sexual behavior within nine popular television shows produced in the U.S., while taking into a…

  • The Bridget Jones effect: The relationship between exposure to romantic media contents and fear of being single among emerging adults

    Elisabeth Timmermans, Lennert Coenen et al.•ARTICLE•Psychology of Popular Media Culture•2017•Cited by: 4•References: 8

    sponsorship: This research was funded by a grant from the Flemish Fund for Scientific Research (FWO; FWO.G.0814.13.N). (Flemish Fund for Scientific Research (FWO)|FWO.G.0814.13)

  • The child-effect in the new media environment: Challenges and opportunities for communication research

    Jan Van Den Bulck, Kathleen Custers et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Children and Media•2016

    Most studies on the uses and effects of media and communication by parents and children have focused on how parents influence their children. Socialization theory generally describes how children internalize the rules and norms from their parents, teachers, siblings, media, and others. Socialization is, however, a bidirectional process in which children socialize their parents as well. This “child-effect” is a perspective that has been largely ig…

  • The Bricklayer Effect: How Accounting for Method Bias Affects First-Order Cultivation Relationships

    Lennert Coenen, Jan Van Den Bulck•ARTICLE•Mass Communication & Society•2016•References: 11

    Although the issue of method bias is a well-known threat to the validity of self-reports, it has seldom been addressed in empirical media effects studies. This may be problematic because independent and dependent variables are often measured using similar methods. Thus, reported correlations may not only reflect common variance between the constructs of interest but also indicate common variance between the measurement methods. In this article, w…

  • Violence, sex, and dreams: Violent and sexual media content infiltrate our dreams at night

    Jan Van Den Bulck, Yakup Çetin et al.•ARTICLE•Dreaming•2016•Cited by: 2•References: 3

  • Bedtime mobile phone use and sleep in adults

    Open Access•Liese Exelmans, Jan Van Den Bulck•ARTICLE•Social Science & Medicine•2016•Cited by: 10•References: 51

  • Cultivating the Opinionated: The Need to Evaluate Moderates the Relationship Between Crime Drama Viewing and Scary World Evaluations

    Open Access•Lennert Coenen, Jan Van Den Bulck•ARTICLE•Human Communication Research•2016•Cited by: 2•References: 55

    The literature on cultivation processes assumes that second-order judgments (e.g., attitudes) are repeatedly updated during viewing (i.e., on-line) and can be reported when asked. In this article, we propose this reasoning only holds for people high in their need to evaluate (NTE). Low-NTE individuals do not update their opinions on-line and have to construct their attitudes memory-based, limiting the likelihood of finding second-order relationsh…

  • Violent video games and delinquent behavior in adolescents: A risk factor perspective

    Open Access•Liese Exelmans, Kathleen Custers et al.•ARTICLE•Aggressive Behavior•2015•Cited by: 4•References: 78

    Over the years, criminological research has identified a number of risk factors that contribute to the development of aggressive and delinquent behavior. Although studies have identified media violence in general and violent video gaming in particular as significant predictors of aggressive behavior, exposure to violent video games has been largely omitted from the risk factor literature on delinquent behavior. This cross-sectional study therefor…

  • Predicting adolescents' smoking status in Belgium: The role of music television viewing, gender, and school year

    Kathleen Beullens, Jan Van Den Bulck•ARTICLE•Journal of Children and Media•2014

    The aim of the present study is to determine whether (1) adolescents' music television viewing at baseline was associated with their smoking behavior 2 years later, and (2) to examine whether respondents' gender and school year moderated this relationship. A prospective cohort study with a 2-year follow-up of 1,147 (baseline non-smoking) adolescents between 13 (youngest cohort) and 16 years old (oldest cohort) was conducted in Flanders (Belgium) …

  • Media use and the Process-Based Model for Police Cooperation: An Integrative Approach towards Explaining Adolescents' Intentions to Cooperate with the Police

    Astrid Dirikx, Jan Van Den Bulck•ARTICLE•The British Journal of Criminology•2014•Cited by: 9•References: 43

    Public cooperation with the police is essential for successful crime control. Police can particularly benefit strongly from adolescent cooperation, since young people have a disproportionally high chance of police contact. The current study examines how media use relates to adolescents’ willingness to assist police. Using survey data collected from a sample of 1,968 Flemish adolescents, we test an integrative model which combines Tyler’s process-…

  • Driving Game Playing as a Predictor of Adolescents’ Unlicensed Driving in Flanders

    Kathleen Beullens, Keith Roe et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Children and Media•2013

    The purpose of the current study is to examine whether adolescents’ playing of racing and drive’em up games predicts unlicensed driving in Flanders. A longitudinal panel survey (2006, 2008) was executed among a sample of 1104 adolescent boys and girls (17-18 years old at baseline measurement) in the Flemish region of Belgium. Logistic regression analysis was used in order to examine whether driving game playing predicts self-reported unlicensed d…

  • Adolescent Perceptions of the Performance and Fairness of the Police: Examining the Impact of Television Exposure

    Astrid Dirikx, Dave Gelders et al.•ARTICLE•Mass Communication & Society•2013•Cited by: 3•References: 18

    This study investigates the relationship between adolescents' exposure to news, fictional police/crime shows, and reality police shows and their perceptions of the performance, distributive fairness, and procedural fairness of the police and the link with their overall attitude toward the police. Based on the literature, a hypothetical model of media influence is proposed and tested empirically in a cross-sectional survey of 356 Flemish adolescen…

  • Cultivation Theory: Television Fiction as a Vector of Socialization

    Open Access•Jan Van Den Bulck•CHAPTER•2012

    Cultivation theory was developed by George Gerbner of the Annenberg School for Communication and his colleagues in the late 1960s. The theory argues that by overemphasizing certain aspects of social reality (such as violent crime) and underrepresenting other aspects, television drama affects people's perceptions of reality. Even though it has attracted a lot of criticism, it is one of the three most generative theories in the field of communicati…

  • The Relationship Between News Exposure to a Serial Killer Case and Altruistic Fear: An Exploratory Study

    Open Access•Kathleen Custers, Jan Van Den Bulck•ARTICLE•Studies in Communication and Media•2012•References: 20

    The current study focused on a singular serial killer and rapist case which received a lot of media attention in Belgium. We examined whether exposure to news about this case (case news exposure) was related to personal fear of sexual assault, altruistic fear of crime, and attitudes regarding young adolescents' safety (ATAGO-score) in a random sample of 1002 adults. Case news exposure was the strongest predictor of altruistic fear of crime and th…

  • The Relationship of Dispositional and Situational Fear of Crime with Television Viewing and Direct Experience with Crime

    Kathleen Custers, Jan Van Den Bulck•ARTICLE•Mass Communication & Society•2011•Cited by: 1•References: 10

    Considerable differences exist in the size and direction of the relationship between television viewing and fear of crime found by previous studies. This article argues that different types of fear exist and that fear should not be confused with perception of risk. A distinction was introduced between dispositional fear of crime and situational fear of crime. The relationship between television viewing and the two types of fear was examined and a…

  • Mediators of the association between television viewing and fear of crime: Perceived personal risk and perceived ability to cope

    Open Access•Kathleen Custers, Jan Van Den Bulck•ARTICLE•Poetics•2011•Cited by: 1•References: 54

  • The Impact of Adolescents' News and Action Movie Viewing on Risky Driving Behavior: A Longitudinal Study

    Open Access•Kathleen Beullens, Keith Roe et al.•ARTICLE•Human Communication Research•2011•Cited by: 6•References: 61

    Traffic crashes remain an important cause of injury and death among young people. The aim of the current study was to examine whether adolescents' viewing of particular television genres predicted later risky driving. Data were collected with a two-wave panel survey (N = 426); structural equation modeling was used to examine the relationships between television viewing and self-reported risky driving. Theoretically, the study was framed within cu…

  • Television viewing, computer game play and book reading during meals are predictors of meal skipping in a cross-sectional sample of 12-, 14- and 16-year-olds

    Open Access•Kathleen Custers, Jan Van Den Bulck•ARTICLE•Public Health Nutrition•2010

    Objective To examine whether television viewing, computer game playing or book reading during meals predicts meal skipping with the aim of watching television, playing computer games or reading books (media meal skipping). Design A cross-sectional study was conducted using a standardized self-administered questionnaire. Analyses were controlled for age, gender and BMI. Setting Data were obtained from a random sample of adolescents in Flanders, Be…

  • The Relationship between Docu Soap Exposure and Adolescents' Career Aspirations

    Open Access•Jan Van Den Bulck, Kathleen Beullens•ARTICLE•European Journal of Communication•2007•References: 9

    This study aimed to explore the relationship between adolescents' viewing of docu soaps and their career aspirations. The results show that among a sample of 369 adolescents in their last year of secondary education, regular viewing of a docu soap about midwives, veterinarians or para-commandos was a significant predictor of more positive perceptions of that profession. Ecological data on student numbers suggested that these went up in periods fo…

  • The Psychology of Entertainment Media: Blurring the Lines between Entertainment and persuasion

    Open Access•Jan Van Den Bulck•REVIEW•Journal of Communication•2005•Cited by: 1

    Journal Article The Psychology of Entertainment Media: Blurring the Lines between Entertainment and persuasion Get access Jan Van den Bulck Jan Van den Bulck 1Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 55, Issue 4, December 2005, Pages 880–882, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.2005.tb03033.x Published: 06 February 2006

  • The Child Effect in Media and Communication Research: A Call to Arms and an Agenda for Research

    Jan Van Den Bulck, Bea Van Den Bergh•ARTICLE•Annals of the International…•2005•Cited by: 7•References: 5

    This article reviews the literature on the child effect and suggests that it is an undervalued approach to studying the way families deal with media and the way they communicate. Even young children play an active part in their own socialization and there are many instances in which it is the child who socializes the parent, rather than the other way around. Media and communication research offers excellent opportunities for studying this child e…

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  • Energy intake associated with television viewing in adolescents, a cross sectional study

    Open Access•Jan Van Den Bulck, Jan Van Mierlo•ARTICLE•Appetite•2004•Cited by: 12•References: 16

  • Bedtime mobile phone use and sleep in adults

    Open Access•Liese Exelmans, Jan Van Den Bulck•ARTICLE•Social Science & Medicine•2016•Cited by: 10•References: 51

  • Pillars and politics: Neo‐corporatism and policy networks in Belgium

    Jan Van Den Bulck•ARTICLE•West European Politics•1992•Cited by: 10•References: 8

    The Belgian political system is Usually described as pillarised. Careful examination demonstrates however that it also seems to show all the characteristics of neo-corporatism, even more so than countries which have traditionally been seen as having strong neo-corporatist structures. This article first attempts to explain how Belgian pillarisation provides all the prerequisites for successful neo-corporatism in policy sectors where neo-corporatis…

  • Media use and the Process-Based Model for Police Cooperation: An Integrative Approach towards Explaining Adolescents' Intentions to Cooperate with the Police

    Astrid Dirikx, Jan Van Den Bulck•ARTICLE•The British Journal of Criminology•2014•Cited by: 9•References: 43

    Public cooperation with the police is essential for successful crime control. Police can particularly benefit strongly from adolescent cooperation, since young people have a disproportionally high chance of police contact. The current study examines how media use relates to adolescents’ willingness to assist police. Using survey data collected from a sample of 1,968 Flemish adolescents, we test an integrative model which combines Tyler’s process-…

  • The Child Effect in Media and Communication Research: A Call to Arms and an Agenda for Research

    Jan Van Den Bulck, Bea Van Den Bergh•ARTICLE•Annals of the International…•2005•Cited by: 7•References: 5

    This article reviews the literature on the child effect and suggests that it is an undervalued approach to studying the way families deal with media and the way they communicate. Even young children play an active part in their own socialization and there are many instances in which it is the child who socializes the parent, rather than the other way around. Media and communication research offers excellent opportunities for studying this child e…

  • Media Use and Dreaming: The Relationship Among Television Viewing, Computer Game Play, and Nightmares or Pleasant Dreams

    Jan Van Den Bulck•ARTICLE•Dreaming•2004•Cited by: 7•References: 5

    Children (N = 2,546) in a random sample of 15 secondary schools in Flanders, Belgium, completed a questionnaire about volume of television viewing, computer game playing, and nightmares and pleasant dreams related to these activities. TV content showed up frequently in nightmares for 33% of the children, and computer games were associated with nightmares in about 10% of boys and 5% of girls. About 60% of 13-year-olds and 50% of 16-year-olds repor…

  • The Impact of Adolescents' News and Action Movie Viewing on Risky Driving Behavior: A Longitudinal Study

    Open Access•Kathleen Beullens, Keith Roe et al.•ARTICLE•Human Communication Research•2011•Cited by: 6•References: 61

    Traffic crashes remain an important cause of injury and death among young people. The aim of the current study was to examine whether adolescents' viewing of particular television genres predicted later risky driving. Data were collected with a two-wave panel survey (N = 426); structural equation modeling was used to examine the relationships between television viewing and self-reported risky driving. Theoretically, the study was framed within cu…

  • Is Television Bad for Your Health? Behavior and Body Image of the Adolescent “Couch Potato”

    Open Access•Jan Van Den Bulck•ARTICLE•Journal of Youth and Adolescence•2000•Cited by: 6•References: 14

  • Mediation: Toward a Media Theory of the Social Construction of Reality

    Jan Van Den Bulck•ARTICLE•Communicatio•1999•Cited by: 6•References: 9

    1999). Mediation: toward a media theory of the social construction of reality. Communicatio: Vol. 25, No. 1-2, pp. 3-11

  • The Bridget Jones effect: The relationship between exposure to romantic media contents and fear of being single among emerging adults

    Elisabeth Timmermans, Lennert Coenen et al.•ARTICLE•Psychology of Popular Media Culture•2017•Cited by: 4•References: 8

    sponsorship: This research was funded by a grant from the Flemish Fund for Scientific Research (FWO; FWO.G.0814.13.N). (Flemish Fund for Scientific Research (FWO)|FWO.G.0814.13)

  • Violent video games and delinquent behavior in adolescents: A risk factor perspective

    Open Access•Liese Exelmans, Kathleen Custers et al.•ARTICLE•Aggressive Behavior•2015•Cited by: 4•References: 78

    Over the years, criminological research has identified a number of risk factors that contribute to the development of aggressive and delinquent behavior. Although studies have identified media violence in general and violent video gaming in particular as significant predictors of aggressive behavior, exposure to violent video games has been largely omitted from the risk factor literature on delinquent behavior. This cross-sectional study therefor…

  • Adolescent Perceptions of the Performance and Fairness of the Police: Examining the Impact of Television Exposure

    Astrid Dirikx, Dave Gelders et al.•ARTICLE•Mass Communication & Society•2013•Cited by: 3•References: 18

    This study investigates the relationship between adolescents' exposure to news, fictional police/crime shows, and reality police shows and their perceptions of the performance, distributive fairness, and procedural fairness of the police and the link with their overall attitude toward the police. Based on the literature, a hypothetical model of media influence is proposed and tested empirically in a cross-sectional survey of 356 Flemish adolescen…

  • Research Note: The Relationship between Television Fiction and Fear of Crime

    Open Access•Jan Van Den Bulck•ARTICLE•European Journal of Communication•2004•Cited by: 3•References: 14

    Three hypotheses regarding the relationship between television viewing and fear of crime exist. The cultivation hypothesis states that watching television increases fear of crime. The mood management hypothesis states that frightened people will watch more crime on television to learn how to cope with their fear. The withdrawal hypothesis states that people who are afraid of crime will be afraid to leave the house. This leads to heavier televisio…

  • Regions vs states and cultures in the EC media policy debate: Regional broadcasting in Belgium and Spain

    Open Access•Víctor Sampedro Blanco, Jan Van Den Bulck et al.•ARTICLE•Media Culture & Society•1995•Cited by: 3•References: 13

  • Just One More Episode: Predictors of Procrastination with Television and Implications for Sleep Quality

    Liese Exelmans, Adrian Meier et al.•ARTICLE•Mass Communication & Society•2019•Cited by: 2•References: 16

    Sleep experts have raised concern over the effects of electronic media use on sleep. To date, few studies have looked beyond the effects of duration and frequency of media exposure or examined the underlying mechanisms of this association. As procrastinatory media use has been related to lower well-being, we used data from two survey studies (N1 = 821, N2 = 584) to investigate (a) predictors of procrastinatory TV viewing and (b) the link between …

  • Casual Sexual Scripts on the Screen: A Quantitative Content Analysis

    Open Access•Elisabeth Timmermans, Jan Van Den Bulck•ARTICLE•Archives of Sexual Behavior•2018•Cited by: 2•References: 76

    While existing content analyses have provided insightful information in terms of contextual factors and frequency of sexual behaviors, not much is known about the relational context in which sexual depictions generally occur. The current study addresses this void by employing content analytic methods to measure the frequency and context of depictions of sexual behavior within nine popular television shows produced in the U.S., while taking into a…

  • Violence, sex, and dreams: Violent and sexual media content infiltrate our dreams at night

    Jan Van Den Bulck, Yakup Çetin et al.•ARTICLE•Dreaming•2016•Cited by: 2•References: 3

  • Cultivating the Opinionated: The Need to Evaluate Moderates the Relationship Between Crime Drama Viewing and Scary World Evaluations

    Open Access•Lennert Coenen, Jan Van Den Bulck•ARTICLE•Human Communication Research•2016•Cited by: 2•References: 55

    The literature on cultivation processes assumes that second-order judgments (e.g., attitudes) are repeatedly updated during viewing (i.e., on-line) and can be reported when asked. In this article, we propose this reasoning only holds for people high in their need to evaluate (NTE). Low-NTE individuals do not update their opinions on-line and have to construct their attitudes memory-based, limiting the likelihood of finding second-order relationsh…

  • When the viewer goes to prison: Learning fact from watching fiction. A qualitative cultivation study

    Open Access•Jan Van Den Bulck, Heidi Vandebosch•ARTICLE•Poetics•2003•Cited by: 2•References: 24

  • The Relationship of Dispositional and Situational Fear of Crime with Television Viewing and Direct Experience with Crime

    Kathleen Custers, Jan Van Den Bulck•ARTICLE•Mass Communication & Society•2011•Cited by: 1•References: 10

    Considerable differences exist in the size and direction of the relationship between television viewing and fear of crime found by previous studies. This article argues that different types of fear exist and that fear should not be confused with perception of risk. A distinction was introduced between dispositional fear of crime and situational fear of crime. The relationship between television viewing and the two types of fear was examined and a…

  • Mediators of the association between television viewing and fear of crime: Perceived personal risk and perceived ability to cope

    Open Access•Kathleen Custers, Jan Van Den Bulck•ARTICLE•Poetics•2011•Cited by: 1•References: 54

  • The Psychology of Entertainment Media: Blurring the Lines between Entertainment and persuasion

    Open Access•Jan Van Den Bulck•REVIEW•Journal of Communication•2005•Cited by: 1

    Journal Article The Psychology of Entertainment Media: Blurring the Lines between Entertainment and persuasion Get access Jan Van den Bulck Jan Van den Bulck 1Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 55, Issue 4, December 2005, Pages 880–882, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.2005.tb03033.x Published: 06 February 2006

  • Estimating the Success of Political Communication Strategies: The Case of Political Poster Impact in a Belgian Election

    Open Access•Jan Van Den Bulck•ARTICLE•European Journal of Communication•1993•Cited by: 1•References: 14

    This article discusses some of the problems of measuring political advertising effectiveness. It is argued that research about effects of political communication seems to lead to conclusions which are less easily contested if measurements are limited to cognitive effects, for which the term `impact' is used. Political campaign posters are used as a research tool to measure the impact of campaigning strategies. Aided and unaided recall techniques …

  • Pillars and politics: Neo‐corporatism and policy networks in Belgium

    Jan Van Den Bulck•ARTICLE•West European Politics•1992•Cited by: 10•References: 8

    The Belgian political system is Usually described as pillarised. Careful examination demonstrates however that it also seems to show all the characteristics of neo-corporatism, even more so than countries which have traditionally been seen as having strong neo-corporatist structures. This article first attempts to explain how Belgian pillarisation provides all the prerequisites for successful neo-corporatism in policy sectors where neo-corporatis…

  • Estimating the Success of Political Communication Strategies: The Case of Political Poster Impact in a Belgian Election

    Open Access•Jan Van Den Bulck•ARTICLE•European Journal of Communication•1993•Cited by: 1•References: 14

    This article discusses some of the problems of measuring political advertising effectiveness. It is argued that research about effects of political communication seems to lead to conclusions which are less easily contested if measurements are limited to cognitive effects, for which the term `impact' is used. Political campaign posters are used as a research tool to measure the impact of campaigning strategies. Aided and unaided recall techniques …

  • Regions vs states and cultures in the EC media policy debate: Regional broadcasting in Belgium and Spain

    Open Access•Víctor Sampedro Blanco, Jan Van Den Bulck et al.•ARTICLE•Media Culture & Society•1995•Cited by: 3•References: 13

  • Mediation: Toward a Media Theory of the Social Construction of Reality

    Jan Van Den Bulck•ARTICLE•Communicatio•1999•Cited by: 6•References: 9

    1999). Mediation: toward a media theory of the social construction of reality. Communicatio: Vol. 25, No. 1-2, pp. 3-11

  • Is Television Bad for Your Health? Behavior and Body Image of the Adolescent “Couch Potato”

    Open Access•Jan Van Den Bulck•ARTICLE•Journal of Youth and Adolescence•2000•Cited by: 6•References: 14

  • When the viewer goes to prison: Learning fact from watching fiction. A qualitative cultivation study

    Open Access•Jan Van Den Bulck, Heidi Vandebosch•ARTICLE•Poetics•2003•Cited by: 2•References: 24

  • Television Viewing, Computer Game Playing, and Internet Use and Self-Reported Time to Bed and Time out of Bed in Secondary-School Children

    Jan Van Den Bulck•ARTICLE•Sleep•2004

    OBJECTIVE: To investigate the relationship between the presence of a television set, a gaming computer, and/or an Internet connection in the room of adolescents and television viewing, computer game playing, and Internet use on the one hand, and time to bed, time up, time spent in bed, and overall tiredness in first- and fourth-year secondary-school children on the other hand. METHODS: A random sample of students from 15 schools in Flanders, Belg…

  • Research Note: The Relationship between Television Fiction and Fear of Crime

    Open Access•Jan Van Den Bulck•ARTICLE•European Journal of Communication•2004•Cited by: 3•References: 14

    Three hypotheses regarding the relationship between television viewing and fear of crime exist. The cultivation hypothesis states that watching television increases fear of crime. The mood management hypothesis states that frightened people will watch more crime on television to learn how to cope with their fear. The withdrawal hypothesis states that people who are afraid of crime will be afraid to leave the house. This leads to heavier televisio…

  • Energy intake associated with television viewing in adolescents, a cross sectional study

    Open Access•Jan Van Den Bulck, Jan Van Mierlo•ARTICLE•Appetite•2004•Cited by: 12•References: 16

  • Media Use and Dreaming: The Relationship Among Television Viewing, Computer Game Play, and Nightmares or Pleasant Dreams

    Jan Van Den Bulck•ARTICLE•Dreaming•2004•Cited by: 7•References: 5

    Children (N = 2,546) in a random sample of 15 secondary schools in Flanders, Belgium, completed a questionnaire about volume of television viewing, computer game playing, and nightmares and pleasant dreams related to these activities. TV content showed up frequently in nightmares for 33% of the children, and computer games were associated with nightmares in about 10% of boys and 5% of girls. About 60% of 13-year-olds and 50% of 16-year-olds repor…

  • The Psychology of Entertainment Media: Blurring the Lines between Entertainment and persuasion

    Open Access•Jan Van Den Bulck•REVIEW•Journal of Communication•2005•Cited by: 1

    Journal Article The Psychology of Entertainment Media: Blurring the Lines between Entertainment and persuasion Get access Jan Van den Bulck Jan Van den Bulck 1Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 55, Issue 4, December 2005, Pages 880–882, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.2005.tb03033.x Published: 06 February 2006

  • The Child Effect in Media and Communication Research: A Call to Arms and an Agenda for Research

    Jan Van Den Bulck, Bea Van Den Bergh•ARTICLE•Annals of the International…•2005•Cited by: 7•References: 5

    This article reviews the literature on the child effect and suggests that it is an undervalued approach to studying the way families deal with media and the way they communicate. Even young children play an active part in their own socialization and there are many instances in which it is the child who socializes the parent, rather than the other way around. Media and communication research offers excellent opportunities for studying this child e…

  • The Relationship between Docu Soap Exposure and Adolescents' Career Aspirations

    Open Access•Jan Van Den Bulck, Kathleen Beullens•ARTICLE•European Journal of Communication•2007•References: 9

    This study aimed to explore the relationship between adolescents' viewing of docu soaps and their career aspirations. The results show that among a sample of 369 adolescents in their last year of secondary education, regular viewing of a docu soap about midwives, veterinarians or para-commandos was a significant predictor of more positive perceptions of that profession. Ecological data on student numbers suggested that these went up in periods fo…

  • Television viewing, computer game play and book reading during meals are predictors of meal skipping in a cross-sectional sample of 12-, 14- and 16-year-olds

    Open Access•Kathleen Custers, Jan Van Den Bulck•ARTICLE•Public Health Nutrition•2010

    Objective To examine whether television viewing, computer game playing or book reading during meals predicts meal skipping with the aim of watching television, playing computer games or reading books (media meal skipping). Design A cross-sectional study was conducted using a standardized self-administered questionnaire. Analyses were controlled for age, gender and BMI. Setting Data were obtained from a random sample of adolescents in Flanders, Be…

  • The Relationship of Dispositional and Situational Fear of Crime with Television Viewing and Direct Experience with Crime

    Kathleen Custers, Jan Van Den Bulck•ARTICLE•Mass Communication & Society•2011•Cited by: 1•References: 10

    Considerable differences exist in the size and direction of the relationship between television viewing and fear of crime found by previous studies. This article argues that different types of fear exist and that fear should not be confused with perception of risk. A distinction was introduced between dispositional fear of crime and situational fear of crime. The relationship between television viewing and the two types of fear was examined and a…

  • Mediators of the association between television viewing and fear of crime: Perceived personal risk and perceived ability to cope

    Open Access•Kathleen Custers, Jan Van Den Bulck•ARTICLE•Poetics•2011•Cited by: 1•References: 54

  • The Impact of Adolescents' News and Action Movie Viewing on Risky Driving Behavior: A Longitudinal Study

    Open Access•Kathleen Beullens, Keith Roe et al.•ARTICLE•Human Communication Research•2011•Cited by: 6•References: 61

    Traffic crashes remain an important cause of injury and death among young people. The aim of the current study was to examine whether adolescents' viewing of particular television genres predicted later risky driving. Data were collected with a two-wave panel survey (N = 426); structural equation modeling was used to examine the relationships between television viewing and self-reported risky driving. Theoretically, the study was framed within cu…

  • Cultivation Theory: Television Fiction as a Vector of Socialization

    Open Access•Jan Van Den Bulck•CHAPTER•2012

    Cultivation theory was developed by George Gerbner of the Annenberg School for Communication and his colleagues in the late 1960s. The theory argues that by overemphasizing certain aspects of social reality (such as violent crime) and underrepresenting other aspects, television drama affects people's perceptions of reality. Even though it has attracted a lot of criticism, it is one of the three most generative theories in the field of communicati…

  • The Relationship Between News Exposure to a Serial Killer Case and Altruistic Fear: An Exploratory Study

    Open Access•Kathleen Custers, Jan Van Den Bulck•ARTICLE•Studies in Communication and Media•2012•References: 20

    The current study focused on a singular serial killer and rapist case which received a lot of media attention in Belgium. We examined whether exposure to news about this case (case news exposure) was related to personal fear of sexual assault, altruistic fear of crime, and attitudes regarding young adolescents' safety (ATAGO-score) in a random sample of 1002 adults. Case news exposure was the strongest predictor of altruistic fear of crime and th…

  • Driving Game Playing as a Predictor of Adolescents’ Unlicensed Driving in Flanders

    Kathleen Beullens, Keith Roe et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Children and Media•2013

    The purpose of the current study is to examine whether adolescents’ playing of racing and drive’em up games predicts unlicensed driving in Flanders. A longitudinal panel survey (2006, 2008) was executed among a sample of 1104 adolescent boys and girls (17-18 years old at baseline measurement) in the Flemish region of Belgium. Logistic regression analysis was used in order to examine whether driving game playing predicts self-reported unlicensed d…

  • Adolescent Perceptions of the Performance and Fairness of the Police: Examining the Impact of Television Exposure

    Astrid Dirikx, Dave Gelders et al.•ARTICLE•Mass Communication & Society•2013•Cited by: 3•References: 18

    This study investigates the relationship between adolescents' exposure to news, fictional police/crime shows, and reality police shows and their perceptions of the performance, distributive fairness, and procedural fairness of the police and the link with their overall attitude toward the police. Based on the literature, a hypothetical model of media influence is proposed and tested empirically in a cross-sectional survey of 356 Flemish adolescen…

  • Predicting adolescents' smoking status in Belgium: The role of music television viewing, gender, and school year

    Kathleen Beullens, Jan Van Den Bulck•ARTICLE•Journal of Children and Media•2014

    The aim of the present study is to determine whether (1) adolescents' music television viewing at baseline was associated with their smoking behavior 2 years later, and (2) to examine whether respondents' gender and school year moderated this relationship. A prospective cohort study with a 2-year follow-up of 1,147 (baseline non-smoking) adolescents between 13 (youngest cohort) and 16 years old (oldest cohort) was conducted in Flanders (Belgium) …

  • Media use and the Process-Based Model for Police Cooperation: An Integrative Approach towards Explaining Adolescents' Intentions to Cooperate with the Police

    Astrid Dirikx, Jan Van Den Bulck•ARTICLE•The British Journal of Criminology•2014•Cited by: 9•References: 43

    Public cooperation with the police is essential for successful crime control. Police can particularly benefit strongly from adolescent cooperation, since young people have a disproportionally high chance of police contact. The current study examines how media use relates to adolescents’ willingness to assist police. Using survey data collected from a sample of 1,968 Flemish adolescents, we test an integrative model which combines Tyler’s process-…

  • Violent video games and delinquent behavior in adolescents: A risk factor perspective

    Open Access•Liese Exelmans, Kathleen Custers et al.•ARTICLE•Aggressive Behavior•2015•Cited by: 4•References: 78

    Over the years, criminological research has identified a number of risk factors that contribute to the development of aggressive and delinquent behavior. Although studies have identified media violence in general and violent video gaming in particular as significant predictors of aggressive behavior, exposure to violent video games has been largely omitted from the risk factor literature on delinquent behavior. This cross-sectional study therefor…

  • The child-effect in the new media environment: Challenges and opportunities for communication research

    Jan Van Den Bulck, Kathleen Custers et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Children and Media•2016

    Most studies on the uses and effects of media and communication by parents and children have focused on how parents influence their children. Socialization theory generally describes how children internalize the rules and norms from their parents, teachers, siblings, media, and others. Socialization is, however, a bidirectional process in which children socialize their parents as well. This “child-effect” is a perspective that has been largely ig…

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