Television and the Aggressive Child

L. Rowell Huesmann, Leonard D. Eron

• 1. The Development of Aggression in Children of Different Cultures: Psychological Processes and Exposure to Violence 2. The Cross-National Approach to Research on Aggression: Measures and Procedures 3. The Development of Aggression in American Children as a Consequence of Television Violence Viewing 4. Television and Aggressive Behaviour Among Finnish Children 5. Socio-cultural Environment, Television Viewing, and the Development of Aggression Among Children in Poland 6. Television Viewing and its Relation to Aggression Among Children in Australia 7. The Differential Effect of Observation of Violence on Kibbutz and City Children in Israel 8. Cross-National Communalities in the Learning of Aggression from Media Violence 9. International Research on Television Violence: Synopsis and Critique. Appendix 1: Instructions for Classroom Procedures. Appendix 2: Coefficient Alphas for Selected Variables in Each Country. Epilogue