Amy I Nathanson
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 96385 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Amy I Nathanson |
| PRENOMES | Amy I |
| SOBRENOME | Nathanson |
| ASSINATURA | NATHANSON A I |
| AFILIAÇÕES | The Ohio State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3347-8660 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1996 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Digital Communication in Parent-Emerging Adult Relationships
This study examined parent-emerging adult digital communication from a relational maintenance perspective. Our goal was to understand how relational maintenance behaviors enacted via digital communication are related to the emerging adult’s autonomy from and connection with parents. We examined the frequency of parent-initiated digital communication, the perceived reasons for communication, and whether parenting characteristics served as moderato…
Counter-stereotypical, yet Counterproductive? How Families at a Science Museum Respond to Narratives that Defy Gender Stereotypes
While visiting a science museum, mothers (N = 125) and their 4- to 7-year-old children were recruited to read one of four versions of an educational storybook. These storybooks detailed either male-dominated careers (i.e., STEM: science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) or female-dominated careers (i.e., HEED: health, early education, and domestic roles), and they featured either a male protagonist or a female protagonist. Results indica…
Note from the co-editors
Contexts for Family Talk about Racism
Scholars studying ethnic-racial socialization often call for research with larger and more representative samples to permit comparison of the behaviors of members of various ethnic-racial subgroups. Moreover, research has highlighted the value of examining contextual variables that may influence ethnic-racial socialization behaviors. With a backdrop of the racially charged 2016 United States (U.S.) presidential election campaign, national survey …
Mixed Messages
Although the predictors of off-line relational aggression have been examined in prior work, less is known about the factors that contribute to online relational aggression perpetration and victimization. This study examined parental restrictive and active mediation of teenagers’ social media use as potential predictors of these outcomes. We were particularly interested in understanding whether parental agreement about media rules and the consiste…
Parental mediation during the U.S. 2016 presidential election campaign
Presidential election campaigns provide opportunities for parents to socialize their children to become politically engaged citizens. However, news coverage of the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign contained inappropriate content, leading parents to possibly restrict or denigrate rather than encourage child campaign news consumption. This study built on literatures in political socialization and parental mediation to explore mediation of campaign n…
Media and the Family
Additional informationNotes on contributorsAmy I. NathansonAmy Nathanson, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Communication in the School of Communication at Ohio State University. She studies the effects of media on children, including how parent–child communication shapes children's responses to television. Most recently, she has studied the relation between television exposure and young children's neuropsychological function, such as their exe…
Protective Effects of Parental Monitoring of Children’s Media Use
IMPORTANCE: Children spend more time with electronic media than they do in any other activity, aside from sleep. Many of the negative effects that stem from media exposure may be reduced by parental monitoring of children's media use; however, there lacks a clear understanding of the mechanisms and extent of these protective effects. OBJECTIVE: To determine the prospective effects of parental monitoring of children's media on physical, social, an…
The relation between television exposure and executive function among preschoolers
This study investigated the relations between television exposure during the preschool years and the development of executive function (EF). Data were gathered from 107 parents of preschoolers who provided information on children's television viewing, background television exposure, exposure to specific televised content, and the age at which children began watching television. Preschoolers' EF was assessed via one-on-one interviews. We found tha…
The Relation Between Television Exposure and Theory of Mind Among Preschoolers
This study explored the relation between preschoolers' television exposure and one important indicator of cognitive processing called theory of mind (TOM). A total of 107 preschoolers and their parents provided data on the preschoolers' television exposure (including both intentional viewing and exposure via background television), parent–child discussion of television, and preschoolers' TOM. The results indicated that preschoolers who were expos…
Do You See What I See? Parent and Child Reports of Parental Monitoring of Media
Research on parental monitoring of children's media use suggests parents can reduce the negative effects of media exposure on children, although this research is rarely conducted with elementary school children and leaves open questions about whether parents or children are better reporters. Participants were 1,323 children, their parents, and teachers. Parents and children reported on four aspects of monitoring for TV and video games: co‐using, …
The Effects of Parental Mediation of Sexual Content on the Sexual Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviors of Adolescents in the US
This study explored the effects of parental mediation of sexual television content on adolescents' sexual knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors. Undergraduate students enrolled in an introductory communication class (N = 180) recalled the mediation behaviors their parents used when they were in high school as well as reported their past and current sexual behaviors, attitudes, and knowledge. The results revealed that coviewing of sexual content ser…
TV Viewing Compared to Book Reading and Toy Playing Reduces Responsive Maternal Communication with Toddlers and Preschoolers
This study compared the amount and style of maternal communication with toddlers and preschoolers while mother–child pairs watched TV, read books, and played with toys. We found that mother–child communication was less frequent and less verbally responsive when dyads viewed TV compared with when they read books, and in many cases, when they played with toys. In addition, some forms of maternal responsiveness were positively associated with indica…
Using Television Mediation to Stimulate Nontraditional Gender Roles among Caucasian and African American Children in the US
An experiment with 146 Kindergarten, first-, fourth-, and fifth-grade children was conducted to determine whether the findings of previous mediation research can be generalized to a new television context (gender stereotyped television) and a new population (African American children). A 3 (mediation type) × 2 (grade) × 2 (race/ethnicity) experiment revealed that the results of prior work can be replicated among Caucasian children but not among A…
Factual and Evaluative Approaches to Modifying Children's Responses to Violent Television
Factual and Evaluative Approaches to Modifying Children's Responses to Violent Television1
Journal Article Factual and Evaluative Approaches to Modifying Children's Responses to Violent Television Get access Amy I. Nathanson Amy I. Nathanson 1Amy I. Nathanson (PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison) is on the faculty of the School of Journalism and Communication, Ohio State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 54, Issue 2, 1 June 2004, Pages 321–336, https:/…
The Effects of Mediation Content and Form on Children's Responses to Violent Television
This research explores the role of mediation content and its grammatical structure in children's responses to a violent television program. An experiment was conducted with 103 children ranging in age from 5- to 12-years-old. Mediation strategies that emphasized the program as either factually inaccurate or socially unrealistic were developed. This information was communicated to children either directly (in statement form) or by asking children …
The Effects of Mediation Content and Form on Children's Responses to Violent Television
This research explores the role of mediation content and its grammatical structure in children's responses to a violent television program. An experiment was conducted with 103 children ranging in age from 5- to 12-years-old. Mediation strategies that emphasized the program as either factually inaccurate or socially unrealistic were developed. This information was communicated to children either directly (in statement form) or by asking children …
The Unintended Effects of Parental Mediation of Television on Adolescents
A survey of both parents and students was conducted to explore the relationship between parental mediation of televised violence and sex and adolescents' attitudes toward their parents, perceptions of their parents' attitudes toward them, attitudes toward the mediated content, and amount of viewing of the mediated content with friends. The results indicated that restrictive mediation was related to less positive attitudes toward parents, more pos…
Counteracting the Effects of Female Stereotypes on Television via Active Mediation
This article reports results of an experiment with 83 kindergarten through 6th-grade children conducted to determine the effectiveness of a theoretically based active mediation strategy for reducing the harmful effects of gender-stereotyped television. The researchers found that a mediation strategy derived from gender-schema theory led to less favorable evaluations of stereotyped television characters. It also led to (a) less positive evaluation…
Prime-Time Television
This Study was designed to assess the prevalence and context of violence in prime-time television programming using a random, representative sample of 23 broadcast, independent, and cable channels. Results showed that, regardless of the times of day, viewers are likely to encounter violence in roughly 2 out of 3 programs when they view television. Using social cognitive theory to frame our analysis, we also identified specific channel types and g…
Counteracting the Effects of Female Stereotypes on Television via Active Mediation
This article reports results of an experiment with 83 kindergarten through 6th-grade children conducted to determine the effectiveness of a theoretically based active mediation strategy for reducing the harmful effects of gender-stereotyped television. The researchers found that a mediation strategy derived from gender-schema theory led to less favorable evaluations of stereotyped television characters. It also led to (a) less positive evaluation…
Parent and Child Perspectives on the Presence and Meaning of Parental Television Mediation
A survey of 394 parents and second- through sixth-grade children was conducted to understand why parents mediate violent television and how children interpret mediation messages. The study found that parents with negative attitudes toward violent television used active and restrictive mediation and parents with positive attitudes used coviewing. According to children, restrictive mediation signaled parental disapproval of the content but active m…
Mediation of Children’s Television Viewing
Despite decades of research on parents’ or other adults’ mediation of children’s television viewing, we still have a rather limited understanding of its potential to promote positive effects and prevent negative outcomes. One reason for this is that a consensus regarding the proper conceptualization of mediation has not yet been reached. As a result, the term has been used inconsistently and produced a body of literature that is difficult to synt…
Rethinking the Social Distance Corollary
Researchers have proposed a social distance corollary to the third-person perception to explain the common finding that as comparison groups become more different from the self or more generally described, the size of the third-person perception increases (i.e., media messages are perceived to have greater negative impact on others than self). The two studies presented here investigate whether third-person perceptions are influenced by social dis…
The relation between television exposure and executive function among preschoolers
This study investigated the relations between television exposure during the preschool years and the development of executive function (EF). Data were gathered from 107 parents of preschoolers who provided information on children's television viewing, background television exposure, exposure to specific televised content, and the age at which children began watching television. Preschoolers' EF was assessed via one-on-one interviews. We found tha…
Mediation of Children’s Television Viewing
Despite decades of research on parents’ or other adults’ mediation of children’s television viewing, we still have a rather limited understanding of its potential to promote positive effects and prevent negative outcomes. One reason for this is that a consensus regarding the proper conceptualization of mediation has not yet been reached. As a result, the term has been used inconsistently and produced a body of literature that is difficult to synt…
Contexts for Family Talk about Racism
Scholars studying ethnic-racial socialization often call for research with larger and more representative samples to permit comparison of the behaviors of members of various ethnic-racial subgroups. Moreover, research has highlighted the value of examining contextual variables that may influence ethnic-racial socialization behaviors. With a backdrop of the racially charged 2016 United States (U.S.) presidential election campaign, national survey …
TV Viewing Compared to Book Reading and Toy Playing Reduces Responsive Maternal Communication with Toddlers and Preschoolers
This study compared the amount and style of maternal communication with toddlers and preschoolers while mother–child pairs watched TV, read books, and played with toys. We found that mother–child communication was less frequent and less verbally responsive when dyads viewed TV compared with when they read books, and in many cases, when they played with toys. In addition, some forms of maternal responsiveness were positively associated with indica…
Parental mediation during the U.S. 2016 presidential election campaign
Presidential election campaigns provide opportunities for parents to socialize their children to become politically engaged citizens. However, news coverage of the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign contained inappropriate content, leading parents to possibly restrict or denigrate rather than encourage child campaign news consumption. This study built on literatures in political socialization and parental mediation to explore mediation of campaign n…
Children's Fright Reactions to Television News
In a random survey of parents of kindergarten, second, fourth, and sixth grade children, 37% of the children were reported to have been frightened or upset by a news story on television. The percentage of children being frightened by news increased from kindergarten to the elementary school years, whereas the tendency to be frightened by fantastic, unreal content showed a decreasing trend. The top categories of stories producing fear were violenc…
Support for Censorship of Violent and Misogynic Rap Lyrics
Recent calls for censorship of rap music have demonstrated the need to test the perceptual and especially the behavioral components of Davison's third-person effect hypothesis. The hypothesis states that people perceive media content to have a greater impact on others than on themselves (perceptual component), and that these perceptions lead people to take actions, such as censorship, to prevent the impact (behavioral component). Results of a sur…
Rethinking the Social Distance Corollary
Researchers have proposed a social distance corollary to the third-person perception to explain the common finding that as comparison groups become more different from the self or more generally described, the size of the third-person perception increases (i.e., media messages are perceived to have greater negative impact on others than self). The two studies presented here investigate whether third-person perceptions are influenced by social dis…
Identifying and Explaining the Relationship Between Parental Mediation and Children's Aggression
A survey of 394 parents and children in 2nd through 6th grades was conducted to explore the relations between parental mediation of violent television and children's generalized and TV-induced aggressive tendencies. In addition, explanations for why mediation is related to aggression were sought by exploring a number of intervening variables. It was found that parental active mediation and restrictive mediation were both negatively related to chi…
Parent and Child Perspectives on the Presence and Meaning of Parental Television Mediation
A survey of 394 parents and second- through sixth-grade children was conducted to understand why parents mediate violent television and how children interpret mediation messages. The study found that parents with negative attitudes toward violent television used active and restrictive mediation and parents with positive attitudes used coviewing. According to children, restrictive mediation signaled parental disapproval of the content but active m…
Mediation of Children’s Television Viewing
Despite decades of research on parents’ or other adults’ mediation of children’s television viewing, we still have a rather limited understanding of its potential to promote positive effects and prevent negative outcomes. One reason for this is that a consensus regarding the proper conceptualization of mediation has not yet been reached. As a result, the term has been used inconsistently and produced a body of literature that is difficult to synt…
The Unintended Effects of Parental Mediation of Television on Adolescents
A survey of both parents and students was conducted to explore the relationship between parental mediation of televised violence and sex and adolescents' attitudes toward their parents, perceptions of their parents' attitudes toward them, attitudes toward the mediated content, and amount of viewing of the mediated content with friends. The results indicated that restrictive mediation was related to less positive attitudes toward parents, more pos…
Counteracting the Effects of Female Stereotypes on Television via Active Mediation
This article reports results of an experiment with 83 kindergarten through 6th-grade children conducted to determine the effectiveness of a theoretically based active mediation strategy for reducing the harmful effects of gender-stereotyped television. The researchers found that a mediation strategy derived from gender-schema theory led to less favorable evaluations of stereotyped television characters. It also led to (a) less positive evaluation…
Prime-Time Television
This Study was designed to assess the prevalence and context of violence in prime-time television programming using a random, representative sample of 23 broadcast, independent, and cable channels. Results showed that, regardless of the times of day, viewers are likely to encounter violence in roughly 2 out of 3 programs when they view television. Using social cognitive theory to frame our analysis, we also identified specific channel types and g…
Counteracting the Effects of Female Stereotypes on Television via Active Mediation
This article reports results of an experiment with 83 kindergarten through 6th-grade children conducted to determine the effectiveness of a theoretically based active mediation strategy for reducing the harmful effects of gender-stereotyped television. The researchers found that a mediation strategy derived from gender-schema theory led to less favorable evaluations of stereotyped television characters. It also led to (a) less positive evaluation…
The Effects of Mediation Content and Form on Children's Responses to Violent Television
This research explores the role of mediation content and its grammatical structure in children's responses to a violent television program. An experiment was conducted with 103 children ranging in age from 5- to 12-years-old. Mediation strategies that emphasized the program as either factually inaccurate or socially unrealistic were developed. This information was communicated to children either directly (in statement form) or by asking children …
The Effects of Mediation Content and Form on Children's Responses to Violent Television
This research explores the role of mediation content and its grammatical structure in children's responses to a violent television program. An experiment was conducted with 103 children ranging in age from 5- to 12-years-old. Mediation strategies that emphasized the program as either factually inaccurate or socially unrealistic were developed. This information was communicated to children either directly (in statement form) or by asking children …
Factual and Evaluative Approaches to Modifying Children's Responses to Violent Television
Factual and Evaluative Approaches to Modifying Children's Responses to Violent Television1
Journal Article Factual and Evaluative Approaches to Modifying Children's Responses to Violent Television Get access Amy I. Nathanson Amy I. Nathanson 1Amy I. Nathanson (PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison) is on the faculty of the School of Journalism and Communication, Ohio State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 54, Issue 2, 1 June 2004, Pages 321–336, https:/…
Using Television Mediation to Stimulate Nontraditional Gender Roles among Caucasian and African American Children in the US
An experiment with 146 Kindergarten, first-, fourth-, and fifth-grade children was conducted to determine whether the findings of previous mediation research can be generalized to a new television context (gender stereotyped television) and a new population (African American children). A 3 (mediation type) × 2 (grade) × 2 (race/ethnicity) experiment revealed that the results of prior work can be replicated among Caucasian children but not among A…
The Effects of Parental Mediation of Sexual Content on the Sexual Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviors of Adolescents in the US
This study explored the effects of parental mediation of sexual television content on adolescents' sexual knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors. Undergraduate students enrolled in an introductory communication class (N = 180) recalled the mediation behaviors their parents used when they were in high school as well as reported their past and current sexual behaviors, attitudes, and knowledge. The results revealed that coviewing of sexual content ser…
TV Viewing Compared to Book Reading and Toy Playing Reduces Responsive Maternal Communication with Toddlers and Preschoolers
This study compared the amount and style of maternal communication with toddlers and preschoolers while mother–child pairs watched TV, read books, and played with toys. We found that mother–child communication was less frequent and less verbally responsive when dyads viewed TV compared with when they read books, and in many cases, when they played with toys. In addition, some forms of maternal responsiveness were positively associated with indica…
Do You See What I See? Parent and Child Reports of Parental Monitoring of Media
Research on parental monitoring of children's media use suggests parents can reduce the negative effects of media exposure on children, although this research is rarely conducted with elementary school children and leaves open questions about whether parents or children are better reporters. Participants were 1,323 children, their parents, and teachers. Parents and children reported on four aspects of monitoring for TV and video games: co‐using, …
The Relation Between Television Exposure and Theory of Mind Among Preschoolers
This study explored the relation between preschoolers' television exposure and one important indicator of cognitive processing called theory of mind (TOM). A total of 107 preschoolers and their parents provided data on the preschoolers' television exposure (including both intentional viewing and exposure via background television), parent–child discussion of television, and preschoolers' TOM. The results indicated that preschoolers who were expos…
Protective Effects of Parental Monitoring of Children’s Media Use
IMPORTANCE: Children spend more time with electronic media than they do in any other activity, aside from sleep. Many of the negative effects that stem from media exposure may be reduced by parental monitoring of children's media use; however, there lacks a clear understanding of the mechanisms and extent of these protective effects. OBJECTIVE: To determine the prospective effects of parental monitoring of children's media on physical, social, an…
The relation between television exposure and executive function among preschoolers
This study investigated the relations between television exposure during the preschool years and the development of executive function (EF). Data were gathered from 107 parents of preschoolers who provided information on children's television viewing, background television exposure, exposure to specific televised content, and the age at which children began watching television. Preschoolers' EF was assessed via one-on-one interviews. We found tha…
Media and the Family
Additional informationNotes on contributorsAmy I. NathansonAmy Nathanson, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Communication in the School of Communication at Ohio State University. She studies the effects of media on children, including how parent–child communication shapes children's responses to television. Most recently, she has studied the relation between television exposure and young children's neuropsychological function, such as their exe…
Parental mediation during the U.S. 2016 presidential election campaign
Presidential election campaigns provide opportunities for parents to socialize their children to become politically engaged citizens. However, news coverage of the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign contained inappropriate content, leading parents to possibly restrict or denigrate rather than encourage child campaign news consumption. This study built on literatures in political socialization and parental mediation to explore mediation of campaign n…
Mixed Messages
Although the predictors of off-line relational aggression have been examined in prior work, less is known about the factors that contribute to online relational aggression perpetration and victimization. This study examined parental restrictive and active mediation of teenagers’ social media use as potential predictors of these outcomes. We were particularly interested in understanding whether parental agreement about media rules and the consiste…
Note from the co-editors
Psychology (25 obras) · Child Development and Digital Technology (23 obras) · Social Psychology (20 obras) · Developmental psychology (16 obras) · Mediation (12 obras) · Sociology (10 obras) · Political science (9 obras) · Impact of Technology on Adolescents (8 obras) · Social Media and Politics (8 obras) · Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression (7 obras)