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Media Violence and its Effects on Young African American Men
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Hill, Rena
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=xavier1395248298
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Year and Degree
2012, Doctor of Psychology (Psy.D.), Xavier University, Psychology.
Abstract
This study investigated the effects that the viewing of violence in movie clips has on the aggressive affect and self-efficacy for aggression/violence among African American men when the aggressive/violent model is similar versus different to them in race/ethnicity. A dimension of racial identity (race centrality) was also investigated as a protective factor against aggressive affect and self-efficacy for violence. The sample consisted of 127 African Americans aged 18 to 22, of which only the 76 men were investigated in this study. Aggressive affect significantly increased after viewing a movie clip with an African American, aggressive model but not after viewing a movie clip with a Caucasian, aggressive model. There were no significant results found concerning self-efficacy for aggression. There was no relationship between race centrality and aggressive affect.
Committee
Anna Ghee, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Lynn Bowers, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Nicholas Salsman, Ph.D., ABPP (Committee Member)
Pages
120 p.
Subject Headings
Behavioral Psychology
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Mass Media
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Psychology
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Social Psychology
Keywords
violence in mass media
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African Americans
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aggressiveness
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blacks - racial identity
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Hill, R. (2012).
Media Violence and its Effects on Young African American Men
[Doctoral dissertation, Xavier University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=xavier1395248298
APA Style (7th edition)
Hill, Rena.
Media Violence and its Effects on Young African American Men.
2012. Xavier University, Doctoral dissertation.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=xavier1395248298.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Hill, Rena. "Media Violence and its Effects on Young African American Men." Doctoral dissertation, Xavier University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=xavier1395248298
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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