Applying Risk and Resilience Models to Predicting the Effects of Media Violence on Development

Advances in Child Development and Behavior

Volumn 46, Issue , 2014, Pages 215-244

  Prot, Sara ^a   Gentile, Douglas A ^a  

^a Iowa State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggression; Cascade effects; Dose response gradients; Media violence; Pathway models; Risk and resilience models; Sensitizing effects; Steeling effects; Turning point effects

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD PARENT RELATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; MASS MEDIUM; MENTAL STRESS; PEER GROUP; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RECREATION; RESEARCH; RISK ASSESSMENT; TELEVISION; VIOLENCE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; AGGRESSION; CAUSALITY; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; HUMANS; MASS MEDIA; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PARENTING; PEER GROUP; REJECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); RESEARCH; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TELEVISION; VIDEO GAMES; VIOLENCE;

EID: 84894075884     PISSN: 00652407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-800285-8.00008-X     Document Type: Chapter

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