OBJECTIVE US parents were surveyed to determine the amount of background television that their children are exposed to as well as to isolate demographic factors associated with increased exposure to background television. After this, we ask how certain home media practices are linked to children's background television exposure. METHODS US parents/caregivers (N = 1454) with 1 child between th...

TV stream structuring is very important for huge archives holders like the French National Institute, the BBC or the RAI, because it is the first necessary step to describe the various telecasts broadcast on various channels. It is also necessary for television ratings in order to isolate the telecasts that must be rated. One can think this structuring is a simple alignment of the TV guides on ...

BACKGROUND Few young people meet television viewing guidelines. PURPOSE To determine the association between factors in the family and home environment and watching television, including videos and DVDs, in early adolescence. METHODS Cross-sectional, self-report survey of 343 adolescents aged 12-13 years (173 girls), and their parents (338 mothers, 293 fathers). Main measures were factors i...

Three studies explored the role of television viewing in eliciting subjective self-awareness and positive self-feelings. Study 1 assessed the effects of self-awareness manipulations via exposure to a neutral television program on actual-ideal discrepancies. Those who watched television showed significantly smaller self-discrepancies than those who did not, independent of mood. Study 2 demonstra...

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OBJECTIVE To investigate the relationship between specific television-viewing habits and both sleep habits and sleep disturbances in school children. METHODS The parents of 495 children in grades kindergarten through fourth grade in three public elementary schools completed two retrospective survey questionnaires, one assessing their children's sleep behaviors and the other examining televisi...

This correspondence describes a European Union supported collaborative project called CustomTV based on the premise that future TV sets will provide all sorts of multimedia information and interactivity, as well as manage all such services according to each user’s or group of user’s preferences/profiles. We have demonstrated the potential of recent standards (MPEG-4 and MPEG-7) to implement suc...

OBJECTIVE To assess the influence of media, specifically reality television, on adolescent behavior. STUDY DESIGN A total of 1141 preteen and adolescent girls (age range 11-17) answered questions related to their reality television viewing, personality, self-esteem, relational aggression, appearance focus, and desire for fame. RESULTS Our results indicated that the influence of reality tele...