Exposure of US adolescents to extremely violent movies

Pediatrics

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 306-312

  Worth, Keilah A ^a,c   Chambers, Jennifer Gibson ^b   Nassau, Daniel H ^a   Rakhra, Balvinder K ^a   Sargent, James D ^a  

^a Department of Pediatrics ^*  (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c NORRIS COTTON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Media; Movies; Violence

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; CHILD; CHILD REARING; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; TELEVISION; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE; VIOLENT MOVIE; AGE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; IMITATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MOTION PICTURES AS TOPIC; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEW HAMPSHIRE; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX FACTORS; VIOLENCE;

EID: 49849096047     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2007-1096     Document Type: Article

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