テレビジョンと学業成績

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The multiple correlation of school achievement with the linear coinbinationof TV-Print behavior, intelligence, and other variables was R=0.601 with fourth graders, and R=0.675 with seventh graders. The TV-Print behavior is categorized into the four types: TV-type (high TV and lowprint); Print-type (low TV and high print); High users (high TV and high print); and Low users (low TV and low print). With the fourth.graders, variables which have significant partial correlations with schoolachievement were intelligence, creativity, positivity and parent-child conflict.With the seventh graders, they were intelligence, adaptability, creativity, social class, and social norm. The partial correlation betweenschool achievement and TV-Print behavior, however, was significant withneither of fourth and seventh graders. We can conclude that the less.achievement of TV-type groups is not due to the direct effects of television, but depends upon the intervening effects of predispositions and/or children's “Parent troubles, ”