Children's Attitudes to Television, 1993

This research study is the first part of a larger project which assesses the overall picture of what children like and dislike about television. The data represents the quantative stage of the study on children's attitudes to violence, kissing and swearing on television. The research technique involved taking small groups of primary school students through a self-complete questionnaire. A follow-up stage with the parents of the children surveyed was conducted after the child survey. The research looks at the issues from a child's perspective. Children were asked questions relating to the timing and frequency of their television viewing; what programs/issues they do not like to view; the degree to which they perceived rules and routines were imposed upon them about their television viewing; what they were concerned about in television programs; and their attitudes to television classification issues such as depictions of swearing, violence, kissing and nudity. Parents were asked similar questions for comparative purposes. Background variables for the children's survey included age and sex. Background variables for the parent's survey included age, sex and relationship to child.
File contains 00963-c and 00963-p datasets.