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Children’s Attention to Formal Features of Television Program in the Viewing Environment with Multiple Alternatives

Guo, Wenxiu
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1245435776

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2009, Master of Arts, Ohio State University, Communication.
Television viewing by 17 dyads of mother and child at a laboratory with toys and books available was recorded. Children’s and their mothers’ looking behavior and formal features in the television programs were coded. Children’s attentional styles in relation to the occurrence of each formal feature, their age, gender, viewing experience, their mothers’ attention, and mediation were examined. With several exceptions, children paid more attention to perceptually salient features than reflective features and linguistic codes. Older children and children with more viewing experience paid more attention to some reflective features and linguistic codes, whereas younger children and children with less viewing experience paid more attention to some perceptually salient features. Boys paid more attention to adult male characters than girls did. Mothers’ attention and mediation further moderated developmental change and individual differences in children’s attention.
Amy Nathanson (Advisor)
Emily Moyer-Guse (Committee Member)
Communication
TV viewing; formal features; children

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  • Guo, W. (2009). Children’s Attention to Formal Features of Television Program in the Viewing Environment with Multiple Alternatives [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1245435776

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Guo, Wenxiu. Children’s Attention to Formal Features of Television Program in the Viewing Environment with Multiple Alternatives. 2009. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1245435776.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Guo, Wenxiu. "Children’s Attention to Formal Features of Television Program in the Viewing Environment with Multiple Alternatives." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1245435776

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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