TY  - JOUR
A1  - Prot, Sara
A1  - Gentile, Douglas A.
A1  - Anderson, Craig A.
A1  - Suzuki, Kanae
A1  - Swing, Edward
A1  - Lim, Kam Ming
A1  - Horiuchi, Yukiko
A1  - Jelic, Margareta
A1  - Krahé, Barbara
A1  - Wei Liuqing, 
A1  - Liau, Albert K.
A1  - Khoo, Angeline
A1  - Petrescu, Poesis Diana
A1  - Sakamoto, Akira
A1  - Tajima, Sachi
A1  - Toma, Roxana Andreea
A1  - Warburton, Wayne
A1  - Zhang, Xuemin
A1  - Lam, Ben Chun Pan
T1  - Long-term relations among prosocial-media use, empathy, and prosocial behavior
JF  - Psychological science : research, theory, & application in psychology and related sciences
N2  - Despite recent growth of research on the effects of prosocial media, processes underlying these effects are not well understood. Two studies explored theoretically relevant mediators and moderators of the effects of prosocial media on helping. Study 1 examined associations among prosocial- and violent-media use, empathy, and helping in samples from seven countries. Prosocial-media use was positively associated with helping. This effect was mediated by empathy and was similar across cultures. Study 2 explored longitudinal relations among prosocial-video-game use, violent-video-game use, empathy, and helping in a large sample of Singaporean children and adolescents measured three times across 2 years. Path analyses showed significant longitudinal effects of prosocial- and violent-video-game use on prosocial behavior through empathy. Latent-growth-curve modeling for the 2-year period revealed that change in video-game use significantly affected change in helping, and that this relationship was mediated by change in empathy.
KW  - mass media
KW  - cross-cultural differences
KW  - social behavior
KW  - prosocial media
KW  - violent media
KW  - prosocial behavior
KW  - empathy
KW  - helping
KW  - general learning model
KW  - prediction
Y1  - 2014
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797613503854
SN  - 0956-7976
SN  - 1467-9280
VL  - 25
IS  - 2
SP  - 358
EP  - 368
PB  - Sage Publ.
CY  - Thousand Oaks
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Anderson, Craig A.
A1  - Suzuki, Kanae
A1  - Swing, Edward L.
A1  - Groves, Christopher L.
A1  - Gentile, Douglas A.
A1  - Prot, Sara
A1  - Lam, Chun Pan
A1  - Sakamoto, Akira
A1  - Horiuchi, Yukiko
A1  - Krahé, Barbara
A1  - Jelic, Margareta
A1  - Wei Liuqing, 
A1  - Toma, Roxana
A1  - Warburton, Wayne A.
A1  - Zhang, Xue-Min
A1  - Tajima, Sachi
A1  - Qing, Feng
A1  - Petrescu, Poesis
T1  - Media Violence and Other Aggression Risk Factors in Seven Nations
JF  - Personality and social psychology bulletin
N2  - Cultural generality versus specificity of media violence effects on aggression was examined in seven countries (Australia, China, Croatia, Germany, Japan, Romania, the United States). Participants reported aggressive behaviors, media use habits, and several other known risk and protective factors for aggression. Across nations, exposure to violent screen media was positively associated with aggression. This effect was partially mediated by aggressive cognitions and empathy. The media violence effect on aggression remained significant even after statistically controlling a number of relevant risk and protective factors (e.g., abusive parenting, peer delinquency), and was similar in magnitude to effects of other risk factors. In support of the cumulative risk model, joint effects of different risk factors on aggressive behavior in each culture were larger than effects of any individual risk factor.
KW  - mass media
KW  - aggression
KW  - culture
KW  - ethnicity
Y1  - 2017
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167217703064
SN  - 0146-1672
SN  - 1552-7433
VL  - 43
SP  - 986
EP  - 998
PB  - Sage Publ.
CY  - Thousand Oaks
ER  -