Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.5559/di.26.2.06
How Much, Why and How Adolescents Watch Television: Implications for Affective Well-Being
Jadranka Pavić
; University of Applied Health Sciences, Zagreb
Majda Rijavec
; Faculty of Teacher Education, Zagreb
Lana Jurčec
; Faculty of Teacher Education, Zagreb
Abstract
This study was conducted in order to assess the contribution of
the amount of television viewing, television viewing motives and
cognitive involvement in the explanation of affective well-being of
younger adolescents. The sample comprised 537 7th and 8th
graders in ten primary schools located in Zagreb. In addition to
self-assessment of the amount of television viewing, Television
viewing motives scale, Cognitive involvement scales and Positive
and Negative Affect Scale for Children – PANAS C were applied.
Results of hierarchical regression analyses revealed that television
viewing motives explained a rather high percentage of negative
affect and somewhat lesser percentage of positive affect.
Cognitive involvement in viewing explained a small amount of
variance, while the amount of television viewing was not found to
be a significant predictor of either positive or negative emotions.
Generally, it can be concluded that how much adolescents watch
television is not related to their affective well-being, how they
watch it is weakly correlated, while why they do it has the biggest
role, especially for negative emotions.
Keywords
adolescents; television viewing; motives; cognitive involvement; affective well-being
Hrčak ID:
183949
URI
Publication date:
30.6.2017.
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