The Immediate Impact of Aggressive Cartoons on Emotionally Disturbed and Learning Disabled Children

Journal of Genetic Psychology

Volumn 149, Issue 1, 1988, Pages 35-44

  Sprafkin, Joyce ^a   Gadow, Kenneth D ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; CHILD; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMITATION; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TELEVISION;

AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; AGGRESSION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; LEARNING DISORDERS; MALE; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TELEVISION;

EID: 0023969563     PISSN: 00221325     EISSN: 19400896     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00221325.1988.10532137     Document Type: Article

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