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Themes in Superhero-Based Television Shows: An Opportunity for the Development of Children and Adolescents Through Co-Viewing and Active Mediation

The depiction of superheroes and comic book characters in television shows has become incredibly popular. The objective of this study was to determine the positive and negative themes depicted in a select number of superhero-based television shows. A total of 49 episodes from 10 superhero-based tele...

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Autores principales: Kim, Raymond Y, Moroi, Morgan K, Brawley, Amalia, Poley, Marian, King, Tonya S, Olympia, Robert
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7273351/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32523822
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7965
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author Kim, Raymond Y
Moroi, Morgan K
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Poley, Marian
King, Tonya S
Olympia, Robert
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description The depiction of superheroes and comic book characters in television shows has become incredibly popular. The objective of this study was to determine the positive and negative themes depicted in a select number of superhero-based television shows. A total of 49 episodes from 10 superhero-based television shows were analyzed by four independent reviewers. The average number of positive and negative themes was 18.8 and 36.9 mean events per hour, respectively, for all included episodes. The most common positive themes in our sample were associated with service, teamwork, and encouragement, and the most common negative themes were associated with violence, bullying, and alcohol use. Although exposure to positive themes depicted in superhero-based television shows may be beneficial to the development of children and adolescents, pediatric health care providers should counsel families in an attempt to limit their exposure to violence and other negative themes depicted in this genre of television shows.
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spelling pubmed-72733512020-06-09 Themes in Superhero-Based Television Shows: An Opportunity for the Development of Children and Adolescents Through Co-Viewing and Active Mediation Kim, Raymond Y Moroi, Morgan K Brawley, Amalia Poley, Marian King, Tonya S Olympia, Robert Cureus Pediatrics The depiction of superheroes and comic book characters in television shows has become incredibly popular. The objective of this study was to determine the positive and negative themes depicted in a select number of superhero-based television shows. A total of 49 episodes from 10 superhero-based television shows were analyzed by four independent reviewers. The average number of positive and negative themes was 18.8 and 36.9 mean events per hour, respectively, for all included episodes. The most common positive themes in our sample were associated with service, teamwork, and encouragement, and the most common negative themes were associated with violence, bullying, and alcohol use. Although exposure to positive themes depicted in superhero-based television shows may be beneficial to the development of children and adolescents, pediatric health care providers should counsel families in an attempt to limit their exposure to violence and other negative themes depicted in this genre of television shows. Cureus 2020-05-05 /pmc/articles/PMC7273351/ /pubmed/32523822 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7965 Text en Copyright © 2020, Kim et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Kim, Raymond Y
Moroi, Morgan K
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Poley, Marian
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Themes in Superhero-Based Television Shows: An Opportunity for the Development of Children and Adolescents Through Co-Viewing and Active Mediation
title Themes in Superhero-Based Television Shows: An Opportunity for the Development of Children and Adolescents Through Co-Viewing and Active Mediation
title_full Themes in Superhero-Based Television Shows: An Opportunity for the Development of Children and Adolescents Through Co-Viewing and Active Mediation
title_fullStr Themes in Superhero-Based Television Shows: An Opportunity for the Development of Children and Adolescents Through Co-Viewing and Active Mediation
title_full_unstemmed Themes in Superhero-Based Television Shows: An Opportunity for the Development of Children and Adolescents Through Co-Viewing and Active Mediation
title_short Themes in Superhero-Based Television Shows: An Opportunity for the Development of Children and Adolescents Through Co-Viewing and Active Mediation
title_sort themes in superhero-based television shows: an opportunity for the development of children and adolescents through co-viewing and active mediation
topic Pediatrics
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7273351/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32523822
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7965
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