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I’ve Got a Girl Crush: Parents’ Responses to Stories About Sexuality in Children’s Television

McAndrew, Jennie Elizabeth
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1587084433416255

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2020, Master of Arts, Ohio State University, Communication.
An experiment examined how third- and first-person perceptions influence parental mediation of stories about LGBTQ+ characters. Parents (N = 702) watched a children’s show wherein a young girl is revealed to have a crush on another girl. Results indicated that many parents misidentified the girl’s romantic interest as a boy (rather than another girl). Although third- and first-person perceptual gaps emerged with regard to parents’ perception that this content would either be threatening or valuable for their own (vs. other) children, these gaps had minimal influence on parental mediation intentions. Instead, parents who harbored negative attitudes toward LGBTQ+ people rated the show as more threatening and less valuable (for all children) relative to a control episode, which enhanced their support for oppositional mediation (i.e., censorship, restrictive mediation, and negative active mediation) and diminished their support for positive active mediation.
James Bonus (Advisor)
Emily Moyer-Gusé (Committee Member)
56 p.
Communication
third-person effect; parental mediation; sexuality; children; media

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  • McAndrew, J. E. (2020). I’ve Got a Girl Crush: Parents’ Responses to Stories About Sexuality in Children’s Television [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1587084433416255

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • McAndrew, Jennie. I’ve Got a Girl Crush: Parents’ Responses to Stories About Sexuality in Children’s Television. 2020. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1587084433416255.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • McAndrew, Jennie. "I’ve Got a Girl Crush: Parents’ Responses to Stories About Sexuality in Children’s Television." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1587084433416255

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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