Aggressors or victims: Gender and race in music video violence

Pediatrics

Volumn 101, Issue 4 I, 1998, Pages 669-674

  Rich, Michael ^a   Woods, Elizabeth R ^a   Goodman, Elizabeth ^a   Emans, S Jean ^a   DuRant, Robert H ^a,b  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Gender; Media; Music videos; Race; Television; Violence

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CHILD BEHAVIOR; EXPECTATION; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSIC; NEGRO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; TELECOMMUNICATION; TELEVISION; UNITED STATES; VICTIM; VIDEOTAPE; VIOLENCE;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGGRESSION; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; CRIME VICTIMS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MUSIC; SEX FACTORS; TELEVISION; VIDEO RECORDING; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0031918526     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.101.4.669     Document Type: Article

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