Koliko, zašto i kako adolescenti gledaju televiziju: implikacije za afektivnu dobrobit

• Published in: Društvena istraživanja 2017-06, Vol.26 (2), p.249-267
• Main Authors: Pavić, Jadranka, Rijavec, Majda, Jurčec, Lana
• Format: Article
• Language: Croatian
• Subjects: adolescenti; Adolescents; afektivna dobrobit; affective well-being; Children; Cognition; Cognition & reasoning; cognitive involvement; Cognitive Psychology; Educational Psychology; Effects; Elementary schools; Emotions; gledanje televizije; kognitivna uključenost; Media studies; motives; motivi; Negative emotions; Participation; Positive emotions; Schools; Self evaluation; Sociology of Education; Teenagers; Television viewing; Viewers; Well being
• ISSN: 1330-0288; 1848-6096
• DOI: 10.5559/di.26.2.06

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.