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ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLES |
The Effects Of Music Video Content On The Sexual Mores And Behavior Of 7 To 12 Year-old Children
Pınar Mehri CEYLAN,a Dr. Ali E. DEMİRBAĞ,b Dr. Ahmet ÇİFTÇİc
aSağlık Bakanlığı Halkla İlişkiler Koordinatörlüğü (SABİM),
bGastrointestinal Cerrahi Kliniği, Türkiye Yüksek İhtisas Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi,
cRadyo-Televizyon ve Sinema Bölümü, Gazi Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesi, ANKARA
Objective: It has been claimed that not only “obscene” song texts, but also the increasingly erotic fashions and suggestive dance styles often evident in contemporary music video clips are negatively, if gradually, affecting the physical, sexual, moral and mental growth of young children. The purpose of this study was to determine whether or not these effects can bee assessed.
Material and Methods: This study included 596 parentally-consented, first level primary school children 290 females, 306 males, mean age: 9.4 + 1.5) hailing from upper, middle and lower class socio-economic and cultural environments. Independent variables were location, age, gender, education level, profession of the parents, attitude of parents on the child’s watching of music clips, length of such watching, cable TV/satellite channel availability, and choice of performers. The individual child’s preferred fashion, style of dancing, and the body movements of his or her favorite performer, their songs, ideas of what constitutes “obscenity” with regard to the jargon or metaphor contained in texts extracted from 25 popular songs, and lastly, the attitudes of children in their acceptance of pop singers as role models served as dependant variables. Data were statistically examined by chi-square, Student’s-t, Mann-Whitney-U, Kruskal-Wallis and Post hoc tests.
Results: Girls were more affected by dance and body movements than boys (22.2%, p= 0.019). Younger children were more affected by fashion than older (9.6% for 7 year olds, p= 0.04). Overall, the girls’ favorite singers were female and the boys’ male. Children who were more likely to exhibit a higher tolerance for what they termed “obscenity” were those living in Çankaya (21.4%, p= 0.000), those whose households had access to cable TV/satellite (21.4%, p= 0.004) and those who watched TV longer (> 5 hours 23.4%, p= 0.005). Those more apt to contribute such attitudes to the texts, fashion styles and dance maneuvers prevalent in music videos were those children living in Sincan (72.0%, p= 0.001), who were as well younger (23.2%, p= 0.005) and male (64.3%, p= 0.000). The tendency to identify with pop singers was significantly higher in children living in Çankaya, as well as in younger females (p< 0.05).
Conclusion: The results of these data show that erotic or “obscene” contents of music clips affect the sexual attitudes and behavior of children, depending on variations such as age, socio-economic and cultural levels, gender, and the amount of time spent watching cable and satellite TV.Keywords: Music, child, sexuality, mental healingTurkiye Klinikleri J Med Sci 2005, 25:213-220
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