Media Violence and Youth Article Critique

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Still, former violent beliefs and previous violence of students (followed by parents' physical violence) were also important factors that did not confirm part of this hypothesis. The researchers did well to confirm these facts by utilizing regression analysis for each of the dependent variables during the time the second assessment was administered. The results also showed that a dearth of warmth and well-being in school also contributed to violent media exposure (Hopf et al., 2008, p. 85).

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for only $8.97. The results of hypothesis two indicate that horror and violent films are the strongest contributor to violent behavior, but that electronic video games are the strongest contributor to delinquency. These results were predicated upon a composite score of early media violence as relating to the aforementioned two sources in addition to television violence. The researchers used path models to calculate these scores involving various goal variable delinquencies in which these three media were direct factors. What was effective about this process is that the researchers used multiple correlations that referred to the hierarchical stratum from the AU-TO-PFAD algorithm (Hopf et al., 2008, p. 87). The results confirmed hypothesis three and indicated that the strongest effect for the total of experiencing media violence after two years is delinquency, while violent beliefs and students' violence is affected as well. To determine this result the researchers aggregated the data for the three types of media violence into one, which seems logical considering the data available.

DISCUSSION

Article Critique on Media Violence and Youth Violence: Assignment

Given the statistical modeling that the researchers employed in this study, the results seem to have a fair amount of efficacy. Therefore, there were a couple of different strengths associated with this study. Although original research is always desirable, the fact that the study used previously attained research assisted with conducting a longitudinal study over a period of two years. This interval helped to ensure that there was little influence between the initial assessment and the second one. Additionally, the researchers isolated a number of variables and were able to combine them (when needed) effectively. Limitations included the fact that respondents had to essentially estimate how much television they had watched in the two weeks prior to filling out the assessment (which left room for ambiguity) and that the predictor variables -- age, parent's violence, gender, students' violence, media violence exposure -- were not completely independent of each other. Future research could investigate the correlation between delinquency and violent proclivities in juveniles. Because doing so would likely involve one or more dependent variables, a multiple linear regression model (either SAS or Stata) could be helpful determining the results.

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