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In the following text, I will refer to the Article I have chosen. The article is called : “ Children`s usage of media technologies and psychosocial factors.” The article was written from J.Heim, P. Bae Brandtzaeg, B. Herzberg Kaare, T. Endestadt and L. Torgersen. It was published 2007 in the journal :” New Media and society.”
The reason I chose that article, is that I was really interested to deal with that subject. Firstly because I have a two year old daughter and so she is part of the generation “growing up digital”. Secondly because the theme of my diploma in psychology is : “ The position of the Austrians to the psychosocial risk-factors in ear childhood.” The outcomes of my study showed that many people associate high media consumption with the development of behavioural disorders, specially aggressive behaviour and the Attention Deficit and hyperactivity Disorder ( ADHS). So I was very interested in the results of newest studies.
Studies showed, that in development countries, children spend more time with media than on any other activity, except sleeping. An 2005 made USA study showed, that children aged eight years and above spend an average of 6.43 hours a day with media. My opinion ist, that that’s really a lot of time. Most children are sitting between 5 and 7 hours a day at school, then they are sitting again in front of the PC or TV and then they are sleeping about 8 hours. My questions are, when are they moving and exercising their bodies? When are they playing active? When do they spend time with their parents? I just finished reading a book, written by a German Neoropsychologist , Manfred Spitzer. In this book he is writing about the tragically consequences of this phenomenon. Children get really serious health problems, problems we usually hear from older people. Many are becoming overweight, they have a high cholesterol level, hypertension and also adult onset diabetes. These are all new kind of health problems in childhood.
Many studies show contradictory findings. Some analysts say, that media induce personal isolation, because children are alone staring at a screen and so they can not make psychosocial experiences. Other studies distinguish more the positive influences of media. They say, that media give children new opportunities to play, communicate, learn and get social support. I found it really interesting to hear the positive sides of media usage in childhood. I our home we use the internet a lot for communication and finding in formations. But we don’t have a TV and we don’t really miss it. I think that it is important for children to learn how to use the computer and the internet, but its even more important to learn them to be critical by the using of media. Media should not be used for entertainment of children. I often hear that TV is the best baby-sitter .I think, that this is a mistake. Because children sitting in front of the TV are not making real experiences witch they so necessarily need for their psychological growing. It is really interesting to observe a little child in front of the TV. Usually they don’t even notice when somebody talks to them.
The study I read about, is based on a questionnaire based survey in Norway witch researched the use of media among 825 schoolchildren between 10 and 12 years of age. The goal of the study was to find out witch relationship exists between children’s usage of media and psychosocial factors.The general research question of the study was: What is the association between children’s media related activities and psychosocial factors?
Following psychosocial factors where regarded:
• Self concept: How the children judge their own competence in general domains of life, such as social acceptance (how popular they feel, if they believe to have many friend etc.), athletic competence ( how do children see there own athletic ability) and scholastic competence ( how quickly can the children complete there work at school and how well or bad do they evaluate there performing at school.)
• Parental monitoring: The children’s perception of parents knowledge about their free time (where and with whom they are spending there time when they are not at school or at home).
• Social competence: How do children perceive their effectiveness in their social interactions with other children of there age
The authors found that the above-mentioned psychosocial factors are significantly related to certain media activities. The study has four main findings.
1) There is a relation between high level of entertainment usage, specially TV usage, and perception of own scholastic competence. An explanation for that can bee, that children who spend a lot of time in front of the TV have less time to make their homework. But the explanation can also be more complex. Children, who are not interested to do their homework, prefer to do other things in the afternoon, including watching TV.
2) There is a connection between heavy usage and utility usage of media, as well as high scoring on athletic competence. This association is a new finding. Explanations for that finding are: a) A high self-esteem has a positive interaction between coping with difficult technologies and sports .b) Media is often used by highly-oriented technology users witch are often sports-related (football games) and this confirms their interest in athletic activities.
3) There is a connection correlation between utility usage of media and parental monitoring. An explanation the authors give is that parents who are actively involved in their children’s life and activities, have children who use technology for creative and educational proposes rather than for entertainment usage.
4) There is a relationship between the feeling of low social acceptance and heavy usage of media, especially in advanced usage. The explanation can bee, that media are very interesting for some groups of children, boys specially, who seek each other out and become isolated from other children.
My opinion is, that studies like that are very important to realize what media can do with children ( both ways, positive and negative) und what children can do with media (they can use it for knowledge as point 3 shows, but they can also use it to escape from reality as point 4 shows). I think its important to clarify parents about media and their effects. Scientists should try to find strategies, to make the positive effects of media stronger than the negative ones.
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Hallo!
Hier schicke ich Euch meine Arbeit.
Ich freu mich schon auf Eure Kommentare!
Liebe Grüße,
Flora
In the following text, I will refer to the Article I have chosen. The article is called : “ Children`s usage of media technologies and psychosocial factors.” The article was written from J.Heim, P. Bae Brandtzaeg, B. Herzberg Kaare, T. Endestadt and L. Torgersen. It was published 2007 in the journal :” New Media and society.”
The reason I chose that article, is that I was really interested to deal with that subject. Firstly because I have a two year old daughter and so she is part of the generation “growing up digital”. Secondly because the theme of my diploma in psychology is : “ The position of the Austrians to the psychosocial risk-factors in ear childhood.” The outcomes of my study showed that many people associate high media consumption with the development of behavioural disorders, specially aggressive behaviour and the Attention Deficit and hyperactivity Disorder ( ADHS). So I was very interested in the results of newest studies.
Studies showed, that in development countries, children spend more time with media than on any other activity, except sleeping. An 2005 made USA study showed, that children aged eight years and above spend an average of 6.43 hours a day with media. My opinion ist, that that’s really a lot of time. Most children are sitting between 5 and 7 hours a day at school, then they are sitting again in front of the PC or TV and then they are sleeping about 8 hours. My questions are, when are they moving and exercising their bodies?
When are they playing active? When do they spend time with their parents? I just finished reading a book, written by a German Neoropsychologist , Manfred Spitzer. In this book he is writing about the tragically consequences of this phenomenon. Children get really serious health problems, problems we usually hear from older people. Many are becoming overweight, they have a high cholesterol level, hypertension and also adult onset diabetes. These are all new kind of health problems in childhood.
Many studies show contradictory findings. Some analysts say, that media induce personal isolation, because children are alone staring at a screen and so they can not make psychosocial experiences. Other studies distinguish more the positive influences of media. They say, that media give children new opportunities to play, communicate, learn and get social support.
I found it really interesting to hear the positive sides of media usage in childhood.
I our home we use the internet a lot for communication and finding in formations. But we don’t have a TV and we don’t really miss it. I think that it is important for children to learn how to use the computer and the internet, but its even more important to learn them to be critical by the using of media. Media should not be used for entertainment of children. I often hear that TV is the best baby-sitter .I think, that this is a mistake. Because children sitting in front of the TV are not making real experiences witch they so necessarily need for their psychological growing. It is really interesting to observe a little child in front of the TV. Usually they don’t even notice when somebody talks to them.
The study I read about, is based on a questionnaire based survey in Norway witch researched the use of media among 825 schoolchildren between 10 and 12 years of age. The goal of the study was to find out witch relationship exists between children’s usage of media and psychosocial factors.The general research question of the study was:
What is the association between children’s media related activities and psychosocial factors?
Following psychosocial factors where regarded:
• Self concept: How the children judge their own competence in general domains of life, such as social acceptance (how popular they feel, if they believe to have many friend etc.), athletic competence ( how do children see there own athletic ability) and scholastic competence ( how quickly can the children complete there work at school and how well or bad do they evaluate there performing at school.)
• Parental monitoring: The children’s perception of parents knowledge about their free time (where and with whom they are spending there time when they are not at school or at home).
• Social competence: How do children perceive their effectiveness in their social interactions with other children of there age
The authors found that the above-mentioned psychosocial factors are significantly related to certain media activities. The study has four main findings.
1) There is a relation between high level of entertainment usage, specially TV usage, and perception of own scholastic competence.
An explanation for that can bee, that children who spend a lot of time in front of the TV have less time to make their homework. But the explanation can also be more complex. Children, who are not interested to do their homework, prefer to do other things in the afternoon, including watching TV.
2) There is a connection between heavy usage and utility usage of media, as well as high scoring on athletic competence. This association is a new finding. Explanations for that finding are: a) A high self-esteem has a positive interaction between coping with difficult technologies and sports .b) Media is often used by highly-oriented technology users witch are often sports-related (football games) and this confirms their interest in athletic activities.
3) There is a connection correlation between utility usage of media and parental monitoring.
An explanation the authors give is that parents who are actively involved in their children’s life and activities, have children who use technology for creative and educational proposes rather than for entertainment usage.
4) There is a relationship between the feeling of low social acceptance and heavy usage of media, especially in advanced usage. The explanation can bee, that media are very interesting for some groups of children, boys specially, who seek each other out and become isolated from other children.
My opinion is, that studies like that are very important to realize what media can do with children ( both ways, positive and negative) und what children can do with media (they can use it for knowledge as point 3 shows, but they can also use it to escape from reality as point 4 shows). I think its important to clarify parents about media and their effects. Scientists should try to find strategies, to make the positive effects of media stronger than the negative ones.
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