[태그:] Television

The authors hypothesized that television viewership influences materialism and dissatisfaction with standard of living, which in turn contributes to feelings of dissatisfaction with life. They collected data from five countries to examine the issue in a variety of cultural and media environments. The countries and types of samples were: United States (consumer panel and college students), Canada (urban households), Australia (urban households), Turkey (urban households), ...

This paper investigates the role of television in producing higher material aspirations, by enhancing both adaptation and positional effects. Using a large sample of individuals from the World Values Survey, we find that the effect of income on both life and financial satisfaction is significantly smaller for heavy television viewers than for occasional viewers. This finding is robust to a number of specification checks and ...

초록 없음  Morgan, M. (1984). Heavy television viewing and perceived quality of life. Journalism Quarterly, 61(3), 499-740.     

Studied the interactions among TV program interests, sociodemographic and political characteristics, general life satisfaction, and amount of TV viewing time. Human subjects: 956 normal male and female German adolescents and adults (15 yrs and over). Ss completed interviews and were classified into TV viewer types on the basis of their responses. Analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was used to determine interactions among viewer type, life satisfaction, ...