Examining effects of television news violence on college students through cultivation theory

Abstract

This investigation explored relationships between viewing television news coverage of the September 11, 2001 attacks and perceptions of violence initiated by people outside the United States, negative personal emotions, and personal relationships. Results suggest that amount of television news viewing in the wake of the attacks is related to negative personal emotions, positive views of Islamic individuals in general, and negativity of personal relationships with Islamic peers. These results extend work of Rossler and Brosius (2001) and others arguing that cultivation effects may be genre and/or content specific.

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