The Fruits of Cultivation Analysis: A Reexamination of Some Effects of Television Watching
Hughes reanalyses items from the General Social Survey for the middle nineteen seventies measuring alienation and fear of walking near one's home at night, which Gerbner and colleagues claimed were related to heavy television watching. He applies simultaneous controls for age, sex, race, income, education, working hours, church attendance, membership in voluntary associations and population size. The effects of television watching claimed by Gerbner are largely absent in this analysis, and other items from the same data set also fail to support the contention.
Hughes reanalyses items from the General Social Survey for the middle nineteen seventies measuring alienation and fear of walking near one's home at night, which Gerbner and colleagues claimed were related to heavy television watching. He applies simultaneous controls for age, sex, race, income, education, working hours, church attendance, membership in voluntary associations and population size. The effects of television watching claimed by Gerbner are largely absent in this analysis, and other items from the same data set also fail to support the contention.
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Hughes, M. (1980). The Fruits of Cultivation Analysis: A Reexamination of Some Effects of Television Watching. Public Opinion Quarterly, 44(3), 287-302. doi:10.1086/268597.