The Effect of Media Stressing Crime and Violence upon Children's Attitudes

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Abstract
As a measure of acceptance of the ideas, attitudes, and values expressed in crime comics and related media, items for a Likert type attitude scale were derived directly from the ideological content of comic books. The resultant scale (Children's F scale or CF scale) was found to satisfy conventional requirements of reliability, internal consistency, and relative absence of response bias. In two separate studies, scores on the scale were related to measures of exposure to (a) mass media stressing crime and violence, and (b) constructive moral influences. It was concluded from the results that (a) exposure to the media studied influences children in the direction of acceptance of the ideology measured by the CF scale, and (b) exposure to constructive moral influences subtracts from the effects of the media.

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