Televizyon Programlar ndaki iddetin Yeti tirme Etkisi: Konya Lise rencileri üzerine Bir Ara t rma

This study, which aims to investigate the cultivation effect of violence in television programmes on Secondary Educationstudents, has dealt with the cultivation effect of violence in television programmes in terms of Cultivation Theory, which emergedwithin the scope of Cultural Indicators Project developed by Gerbner et al. According to the theory of cultivation, watchingtelevision much increases viewers’ distrust of the others, sows the perception that the world is cruel and dangerous, and leads oneto think that violence in society is greater than it actually is (or than the true violence in society) and its effect is slow,accumulating and long-term. Moreover, it is in interaction with environmental factors and socio-demographic variables.The present study, which was conducted within the framework of Cultivation Analysis, one of the three fundamental pillarsof cultivation research, aims to reveal the effects of Secondary education students’ television viewing practices on theirperceptions of social reality. The main purpose of the study is to demonstrate the cultivation effect of television violence on highschool students. In accordance with the purpose in question, first whether there is a cultivation differential in terms of theresponses that those who watch TV a little and those who watch it a lot concerning social reality (the mean world syndrome,perception of violence, fear of crime, estimation of violence in society and the percentage of criminals in society) was analyzedusing T-Test and Chi-Square Test. Secondly, the cultivation effect of the level of television viewing (and other factors) on themean world syndrome was revealed using the Multiple Regression Analysis. Finally, the effects of the level of television viewing(and other factors) on fear of crime was investigated using Logistical Regression Analysis.The sample was determined according to the stratified sampling technique and the criteria for representing the population.The sample size was determined to be 674 according to 95 % reliability level and 0.03 sampling error; a total of 697 questionnaireswere administered and after the elimination of some inadequate and biased questionnaires, a total of 640 questionnaires were usedto analyze the data. The data, which were obtained from a field study that was conducted via a questionnaire form administered to640 students who attended 8 high schools selected to represent Secondary Education Schools in the city of Konya wereinterpreted through SPSS and Independent Sample T-Test, Chi-Square, Multiple Regression Analysis, Logistic RegressionAnalys