Policy statement - Impact of music, music lyrics, and music videos on children and youth

Pediatrics

Volumn 124, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1488-1494

  Fuld, Gilbert L ^c   Mulligan, Deborah A ^c   Altmann, Tanya Remer ^c   Brown, Ari ^c   Christakis, Dimitri ^c   Clarke Pearson, Kathleeen ^c   Dreyer, Benard P ^c   Falik, Holly L ^c   Nelson, Kathleen G ^c   O'Keefe, Gwen S ^c   Strasburger, Victor C ^c   De Rivas, M Rosario González ^c   Milteer, Regina M ^c   Shifrin, Donald L ^c   Brody, Michael ^a   Wilcox, Brian ^b   Noland, Veronica Laude ^c   Steiner, Gina Ley ^c  

^a American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry   (United States)

^b AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Adolescents; Lyrics; Music; Music videos; Violence

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BEHAVIOR; EMOTION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; INFORMATION CENTER; MOOD; MUSIC; PEDIATRICIAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SUBSTANCE ABUSE;

EID: 70350516583     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2009-2145     Document Type: Article

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