The study
established the influence of psycho-social influence of multimedia violence on
children of school age in Ile-Ife, Nigeria. A total of 150 school age children
involved in the study were randomly selected from four different schools
constituted the sample for the study.
Two validated
instruments used for the study were author-constructed questionnaires
with 0.71 and 0.76 reliability co-efficient respectively. The findings
showed that 3.3% of the children were within the age 8-10 years, 3.3% were
within the age 10-12 years, and 93.3% of the respondents within 13-15, 56.7% of
the respondents were male while 43.3% were female.
73.3% of the
students live in town with their parent while 26.7% live in staff quarters,
73.3% of the respondents spent an hour or less per day watching television. It
further showed that 20.0% spent between 2 and 3 hours while 6.7% spent 7 hours
and above watching television.
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