Habits and Television Preferences of Youths and Adolescents: A Study in the Basque Country

Authors

  • Concepción Medrano-Samaniego University of the Basque Country
  • Santiago Palacios-Navarro University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)
  • Ana Aierbe-Barandiaran University of the Basque Country

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4185/RLCS-62-2007-728-013-027

Keywords:

Television habits and preferences, youngsters and adolescents, television diet, Questionnaire on Television Habits

Abstract

This work gives us a picture of what and how long youngsters watch television according to a sample of 144 adolescents and young people from the Basque Country (Spain). The main aim is to know our reality and contrast it with available data from other researches. First of all, the results from other works on the television habits and preferences of youngsters are summarized and then the results obtained after applying the Questionnaire on Television Habits (QTH), which was set up “ad hoc” for this research, are presented. The obtained data show us that the time spent watching TV is not so long as we might have expected and this activity does not replace other ones either. As regards the television diet, the favourite contents are fiction series and news, but not the most harmful programmes.

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Concepción Medrano-Samaniego, University of the Basque Country

Doctor in Philosophy and Educational Sciences from the University of the Basque Country.

She has a degree in Psychology and Pedagogy from the Complutense University of Madrid and a Master in Child Psychology from the University of Geneva.

She is a tenured professor at the Department of Evolutionary Psychology and Education at the University of the Basque Country, where she, too, has been the director of said Department.

She has worked in the area of values from the cognitive-evolutionary approach with several national and international publications in this area, as well as in the evaluation of values in secondary education.

At present, she directs a research group funded by the Ministry of Education and Science and they are working on the issue of television, values and education.

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Santiago Palacios-Navarro, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)

Doctor in Psychology from the University of the Basque Country. Associate Professor in the Department of Evolutionary and Educational Psychology at the University of the Basque Country.

His research is developed in the line of psycho-didactic variables and new technologies, heuristics, as well as television, values and education. He owns several publications in both lines of work.

Currently he is president of the Hegobit Aldea Association, which aims to promote virtual literacy in indigenous communities, through the National Pedagogical University of Mexico.

He is part of the research team funded by the Ministry of Education and Science that works on television and values.

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Ana Aierbe-Barandiaran, University of the Basque Country

Doctor in Psychology from the University of the Basque Country. Family therapist. She is a tenured professor in the Department of Evolutionary Psychology and Education at the University of the Basque Country, her research activity has focused on the family and, currently, she works in the line of television, values and education.

She has different publications both in the area of family and education and in the development of values.

She is part of the research team funded by the Ministry of Education and Science that works on television and values.

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2007-02-01

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Medrano-Samaniego, C., Palacios-Navarro, S., & Aierbe-Barandiaran, A. (2007). Habits and Television Preferences of Youths and Adolescents: A Study in the Basque Country. Revista Latina De Comunicación Social, (62), 13–27. https://doi.org/10.4185/RLCS-62-2007-728-013-027

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No. 62 (2007)

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