THE EFFECT OF T.V CARTOON NETWORK ON THE AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOUR OF SCHOOL GOING CHILDREN

 Abstract

This study is on the effect of TV cartoon network on the aggressive behavior of school going children. The total population for the study is 200 staff of Empaa nursery and primary school, Ejigbo of Osun state. The researcher used questionnaires as the instrument for the data collection. Descriptive Survey research design was adopted for this study. A total of 133 respondents made up headmasters, teachers, senior staff and junior staff was used for the study. The data collected were presented in tables and analyzed using simple percentages and frequencies

 CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

• Background of the study

Television has become a significant social phenomenon in Nigeria and all over the world. Television viewing is generally believed to generate social force of undeniable influence. It is assume to be the most popular entertainment mass media for children and women. It is this selection of daily programmes, which gets full attention of the viewers. One might says, whatever impacts television is able to inculcate, it is because of various plays, films and musical shows e.t.c. which are telecasted every day, (Zubari, 1992).There is lot of television programmes designed for viewing pleasure of their target audience. Some are tailored towards children, women, adult and many more. This could carry different title such as family health. You and the law, today’s women, children arena, political talk, musical, T.V drama, cartoons, let’s go farming and many more. However, for the purpose of the research, attention will be on the effect of television cartoon network on the aggressive behaviour of school going children. A cartoon is any of several forms of art with varied meanings that evolved from one to another. Cartoon network is a main source of entertainment for children. Children keenly observe what cartoon is on air on cartoon network. Because of this channel, we can see barren play grounds, children sloppy attitude towards studies. They have no time for the healthy activities. Children watch cartoons which are understandable in terms of language. Nigeria children therefore prefer to watch English version cartoons because English language has been adopted as a linguafranca. When children see cartoons in easy and understandable language, they enjoy more and are involved more. Elementary school age (ages six to eleven) is considered a critical period for understanding the effects of television on aggression. At this stage, children develop the attention span and cognitive ability to follow continuous plots and recognize motivations and consequences to characters actions. At this age children’s learning ability is faster than adults (cited at: www. Media. Awareness. com). A number of early studies revealed negative relationship between amount of viewing and measures of their mental ability or aptitude, Schramn et al .(1961)found that students with “ high mental ability” watched more television than these with low mental ability, until ages 10-14: at this point, the low mental students begin watching less and less.

1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

Children tend to behave base on what they watch on television.

v      Poor media law to determine what children are too watched.

v     Watching violence cartoon on television do stick to the psyche of children.

v     Parent and guidance lack knowledge of the implication of watching violence cartoon on their children attitude.

In their research work focus will be made on effect of T.V cartoon network on the aggressive behaviour of school going children.