A normative study of family media habits

By D. A. Gentile, D. Walsh. 2002

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Subfields: Communication, Education, Sociology and Political Science

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Violent Video Game Effects on Children and Adolescents: Theory, Research, and Public Policy (2007, background): “According to recent national surveys of parents, school-age children (boys and girls combined) devote about 7 hours per week playing video games (Gentile & Walsh, 2002; Woodard & Gridina, 2000).”
Gender Differences in Video Game Characters’ Roles, Appearances, and Attire as Portrayed in Video Game Magazines (2007, background): “Additionally, nearly 80% of children regularly play video or computer games; children between the ages of 2 and 17 play an average of 7 h a week (Gentle and Walsh 2002).”
Relationship Between Screen Time and Chinese Children’s Cognitive and Social Development (2020, background): “Passive screen time is negatively associated with children’s cognitive and social development (Gentile & Walsh, 2002; Mistry et al., 2007; Pagani et al., 2013) and has been linked to reductions in nonelectric learning, book exploration, and social interactions (Burdette & Whitaker, 2005; Lemola,…”
Media Contributions to African American Girls' Focus on Beauty and Appearance: Exploring the Consequences of Sexual Objectification (2008, background): “From this perspective, African American children are particularly vulnerable to media influence because of their high rates of media consumption (e.g., Blosser, 1988; Gentile & Walsh, 2002).”
Predicting Media Use in Very Young Children: The Role of Demographics and Parent Attitudes (2013, result): “In addition, less wealthy and less educated parents reported their children watched significantly more television than wealthier and more educated parents, similar to the findings of Rideout and Hamel (2006; Gentile & Walsh, 2002).”
Prosocial video games reduce aggressive cognitions (2009, background): “Whereas children aged 2–7 spend an average of 3–5 h a week playing video games (Gentile & Walsh, 2002), 8th and 9th grade students even average 9 h per week (Gentile, Lynch, Linder, & Walsh, 2004).”
Playing violent video games, desensitization, and moral evaluation in children (2003, background): “Preexisting empathy and attitudes towards violence were positively related to the corresponding vignette scores.”
The effects of violent video game habits on adolescent hostility, aggressive behaviors, and school performance. (2004, background): “The average American child aged 2–17 years plays video games for 7 h a week (Gentile & Walsh, 2002).”
Violent Video Games as Exemplary Teachers: A Conceptual Analysis (2008, background): “In a nationally representative sample, parents reported that their young children aged two to seven play an average of 43 min/day (Gentile and Walsh 2002), and Woodard and Gridina (2000) reported that preschoolers aged 2–5 play an average of 28 min/day.”
Media Exposure, Aggression and Prosocial Behavior During Early Childhood: A Longitudinal Study (2006, methodology): “The parental monitoring scale of the MediaQuotient questionnaire (Gentile & Walsh, 2002) was given to parents.”
Do You See What I See? Parent and Child Reports of Parental Monitoring of Media (2012, methodology): “This approach has been used reliably with parents (Gentile & Walsh, 2002) and children (Anderson, Gentile, & Buckley, 2007).”
Children's Exposure to Negative Internet Content: Effects of Family Context (2005, background): “Extant literature also shows that shared family activities are correlated with positive media effects (Gentile & Walsh, 2002).”