Who Watches Verbally Aggressive Shows? An Examination of Personality and Other Individual Difference Factors in Predicting Viewership

Journal of Media Psychology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-14

  Banerjee, Smita C ^a   Greene, Kathryn ^b   Krcmar, Marina ^c   Bagdasarov, Zhanna ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN   (United Kingdom)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

aggression; media content; risk taking; sensation seeking; television viewing; verbal aggression

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650125702     PISSN: 18641105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1864-1105.21.1.1     Document Type: Article

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