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Identifier	Thesis 1751
Author	Booker, Sara E.
Title	Lessons from Temptation Island : a reality television content analysis
Publisher	Central Connecticut State University
Date	2004
Resource Type	Master's Thesis
Notes	The popular press has criticized reality television, for the most part, suggesting that it appeals to the basest of human fascinations. Reality television has been described as brimming with sex and gender stereotypes. Critics also have suggested that the genre thrives on putting 'real people' in humiliating or degrading situations. What limited discussion is found in the psychological literature suggests that from a social learning perspective, the 'real people' factor of reality television may make the characters more salient as social learning models. Viewers may in turn be more inclined to form opinions about 'real world' norms from such shows. This study analyzed the content of the five most popular (according to Nielson ratings) reality television programs, and recorded the frequency of the behaviors mentioned most often by the critics: humiliation, violence and aggression, sex, and gender stereotyping. This study also analyzed the occurrence of such behaviors on a 'per character' and 'per show' basis. The five most popular scripted comedies and scripted dramas were also analyzed for content using the same methodology so that the results could be compared. Multivariate and univariate analyses of variance were conducted. Results showed that reality television programs and scripted comedies contained significantly more humiliation per character than scripted dramas, but that scripted dramas contained significantly more violence and aggression per character than reality television programs or scripted comedies. Scripted comedies contained significantly more sex on both a 'per character' and 'per show' basis than reality television programs and scripted dramas. None of the three types of shows contained significantly more gender stereotyping than the others. The analyses also revealed that the mean scores for humiliation, as compared to the other behavior categories studied tended to be high. Demographic analyses for gender and age were conducted using two-way between subjects analyses of variance. It was found that there was no significant difference in gender (number of men versus women) or in age (older versus younger age groups) among different show types.
Subject	Reality television programs -- Psychological aspects
Department	Department of Psychology
Advisor	Waite, Bradley W.
Type	Text
Digital Format	application/pdf
Language	eng
OCLC number	713733930
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