Psychological Development and Education ›› 2020, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (5): 545-554.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2020.05.05

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Differential influence of Television Violence on Preschool Children's Social Behavior——The Debate between the “the General Aggressive Model” and “Catalyst Model” Theory

LI Qianqian, YAO Lining, LIANG Jinjun, XING Shufen   

  1. Department of Psychology, Learning and Cognitive Key Laboratory, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100048
  • Published:2020-09-12

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Abstract: 154 preschoolers(M=4.11, SD=0.31)and their mothers participated in this study. Mothers reported their children's surgency, problem behavior, prosocial behavior and the exposure of television programs in the last three months. Results indicated that: (1) children's temperamental surgency moderated the relationship between the frequency and cruelty of television aggression and children's problem behavior, that was the children with high level of surgency were susceptible to frequency of television violence and showed significantly more problem behavior when exposed to the high frequency of television aggression, and less problem behavior when exposed to low frequency of television aggression than those children with low level of surgency, these results supported the differential susceptibility model; (2) in the prediction of children's prosocial behavior, there was no significant interaction between frequency and cruelty of television violence and children's temperamental surgency, while the children's temperamental surgency could significantly predict the children's prosocial behavior, children with high level of temperamental surgency would perform more prosocial behavior compared to those with low level of surgency.

Key words: television violence, surgency, problem behavior, prosocial behavior, preschoolers

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  • B844
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