Children Identity And Gender Roles

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RESEARCH QUESTION: This study's goal is aimed at how children's identity and their gender roles may be defined by what they see on television. This study will look at images relating to gender roles in particular in U.S. television programs for children between the ages of 8-12.

SAMPLE: This sample included at content analysis of 49 episodes of 40 different programs with a total of 201 characters. The construction of this analysis was based upon the principles of the cultivation and social cognitive theory. This study sought out to examine the gender makeup of each program and the different characteristics and gender roles that were portrayed by either the male or female characters. There were two main genres the first being action adventure