ABSTRACT

Screen time is increasingly pervasive in children’s lives and, despite shifts in screen usage, television remains pre-eminent, especially for young children. As such, viewing content merits investigation. The current study applied a novel coding scheme to assess the relative prominence of prosocial and antisocial content in 90 programmes watched by a sample of 180 British two-year-old children. As well as providing a framework for future use in television research, our study highlights the wide variance of prosociality in children’s programming. Future directions for coding and research are discussed.

IMPACT SUMMARY

a. Prior State of Knowledge: Children’s television content has been under scrutiny for decades. Studies involving researcher-chosen content have shown links between prosocial content and young children’s prosocial behaviour, as well as between antisocial content and aggressive behaviour.

b. Novel contributions:

The current methodological brief outlines a novel coding scheme for investigating prosocial and antisocial content that young children view in their everyday lives, taking into account prosocial and antisocial behaviour, as well as format features of the television programmes.

c. Practical implications:

The current work can be utilized and adapted for research in diverse disciplines by investigators interested in how prosocial and antisocial content are associated with child behavioural outcomes.

摘要

屏幕时间在儿童生活中越来越普遍，尽管屏幕使用方式发生了变化，但电视仍然占据主导地位，尤其是对幼儿而言。因此，观看内容值得调查。目前的研究应用了一种新的编码方案来评估 180 名英国两岁儿童样本观看的 90 个节目中亲社会和反社会内容的相对突出程度。除了为未来在电视研究中的使用提供一个框架外，我们的研究还强调了儿童节目中亲社会性的广泛差异。讨论了编码和研究的未来方向。

影响总结

一种。先前的知识状况：儿童的电视内容几十年来一直受到审查。涉及研究人员选择的内容的研究表明，亲社会内容与幼儿的亲社会行为之间以及反社会内容与攻击性行为之间存在联系。

湾。新颖的贡献：

目前的方法简报概述了一种新颖的编码方案，用于调查幼儿在日常生活中看到的亲社会和反社会内容，同时考虑到亲社会和反社会行为以及电视节目的格式特征。

C。实际影响：

对亲社会和反社会内容如何与儿童行为结果相关联感兴趣的研究人员可以利用和调整当前的工作以进行不同学科的研究。