Children and Terrorism-Related News: Training Parents in Coping and Media Literacy

Autor/inn/en	Comer, Jonathan S.; Furr, Jami M.; Beidas, Rinad S.; Weiner, Courtney L.; Kendall, Philip C.
Titel	Children and Terrorism-Related News: Training Parents in Coping and Media Literacy
Quelle	In: Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 76 (2008) 4, S.568-578 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-006X
DOI	10.1037/0022-006X.76.4.568
Schlagwörter	Terrorism; Mothers; Coping; Media Literacy; Anxiety; Children; Correlation; Television Viewing; Parent Education; Contingency Management; Mass Media Effects; Risk; Emotional Response; Program Effectiveness; Age Differences; Social Problems; Early Adolescents; Pennsylvania; State Trait Anxiety Inventory; State Trait Anxiety Inventory for Children + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Terrorismus; Mother; Mutter; Bewältigung; Media skills; Medie competence; Medienkompetenz; Angst; Child; Kind; Kinder; Korrelation; Fernsehkonsum; Parents education; Elternbildung; Elternschule; Krisenbewältigung; Risiko; Emotionales Verhalten; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Social problem; Soziales Problem
Abstract	This study examined associations between televised news regarding risk for future terrorism and youth outcomes and investigated the effects of training mothers in an empirically based approach to addressing such news with children. This approach--Coping and Media Literacy (CML)--emphasized modeling, media literacy, and contingent reinforcement and was compared via randomized design to Discussion as Usual (DAU). Ninety community youth (aged 7-13 years) and their mothers viewed a televised news clip about the risk of future terrorism, and threat perceptions and state anxiety were assessed preclip, postclip, and postdiscussion. Children responded to the clip with elevated threat perceptions and anxiety. Children of CML-trained mothers exhibited lower threat perceptions than DAU youth at postclip and at postdiscussion. Additionally, CML-trained mothers exhibited lower threat perceptions and state anxiety at postclip and postdiscussion than did DAU mothers. Moreover, older youth responded to the clip with greater societal threat perception than did younger youth. Findings document associations between terrorism-related news, threat perceptions, and anxiety and support the utility of providing parents with strategies for addressing news with children. Implications and research suggestions are discussed. (Contains 3 tables and 1 figure.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10