Archives of Disease in Childhood 2009;94:655-657
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Children, adolescents and the media: what we know, what we don’t know and what we need to find out (quickly!)
Correspondence to Dr Victor C Strasburger, 10344 2nd St NW, Albuquerque, NM 87114, USA; vstrasburger@salud.unm.edu
Accepted 28 April 2009
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The evidence that media contribute to child and adolescent behaviour is substantial and can no longer be ignored. Half a century of research shows that the media can have an impact on virtually every concern parents and paediatricians have about children and teenagers—early sexual activity, drug use, aggressive behaviour, suicide, obesity, eating disorders, even attention-deficit disorder and poor school performance.1 Yet the entertainment industry, parents and society as a whole would prefer to think that the media represent harmless entertainment. Here is what every parent and every clinician needs to know about media effects:
Nearly 3000 studies and reviews have found a significant relationship between media violence and real-life aggression.1 Young people learn their attitudes about violence at a very young age, and once learnt, those attitudes are difficult to unlearn.2 3 Conservative estimates from meta-analyses and other studies show that media violence may be causing 10% of real-life violence—not the
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