The Evolution and Extent of the Effect of Children’s TV Shows Upon Adolescents

Abstract

This study aims to focus on the gradual effects various media have on a child’s upbringing in the past few decades and to explore the relationship between children TV shows and the intellectual growth of this select group of youths. In the past years, various television and visual entertainment sources have been garnering increased popularity, especially among children, with the specific effects of these TV shows on children's intellectual growth rarely being called into question. Thus, a study will be conducted through a survey, with the selection of participants being limited to those that have watched this media at a young age. This survey would then be incorporated into a correlational investigation, comparing the responses with an analysis of the TV shows that determines the educational density of the first season of the most popular media among children from 2000 to 2012. After analyzing the perceptions and educational achievement of the survey participants, I discovered that there is a strong correlation in terms of various perceptions of these TV shows and the educational content with a slight relationship between the educational and intellectual content of the shows. This would prove to support existing data while also having the potential of influencing further examination within this field.