Children and Television News

The aims of the study are to examine; whether children perceive television news as real, whether mothers are aware of their children's television news induced fears, the most common frightful coverages of television news and children's behaviors as reaction to fearful television news coverages. Participants were 186, 8-13 years old children and their mothers. According to results, most of the children are aware of the seriousness of news. TV news coverages about; “children who get hurt”, “child ren who are kidnapped”, “animals who get hurt” were the most common fearful coverages. Girls mostly experience difficulty sleeping and the boys mostly behave as frustrated as reaction to the news.