Can anyone tell me where I may locate SCIENTIFIC studies of the impact of reality TV on children?

I would like references to actual scientific studies. I asked this question before and people answered "ask the parents" and that' s problematic because the parents who allowed their kids to watch it are fans of it and won't be giving dispassionate answers. They may also not catalog the psychological impact on any measurable, transferable scale.

I have dug around on the web and found no references to studies of this nature. Has anyone done one? If you haven't and are doing work in psychology or social work, a study on this topic would be interesting.

Opinions on this topic vary and I don't want those. I want to know what studies are saying. Thanks!

Answer:
The reason you are not finding them is that there are not many studies in this area. Your best bet is to look at www.jstor.com
or http://www.apa.org/psycarticles/...

If you are a college student, you may be able to access these websites for free through your university.
I don't know, but Focus on the Family does studies on children all the time. They may have done one on this subject as well. It's worth a look I would think.
You will want to use your university library and search:
Psychlit, social services abstract, social work abstract, sociolgical abstract, and ERIC (ERIC is public and available on the web) (possibly some of the nursing/public health databases as well).

Start broadly with Television and Youth/Children and then narrow to reality, talk show, news, etc. and/or by impacts (e.g psychological, physical, etc.).

Depending on what type of "reality" tv you are looking at it may or may not have been researched yet. DA

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