IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/sae/psydev/v18y2006i2p201-213.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Television Viewing of Higher Secondary Students

Author

Listed:
  • B.R. Shejwal

    (B.R. Shejwal is a Reader, Department of Psychology, University of Pune. His research interests include psychological stress, coping, personality, psychological measurement, OB, and HRD. He is actively involved in teaching, research and applications of psychology in social and organisational fields.)

  • Joy Purayidathil

    (Joy Purayidathil obtained his doctorate from the Department of Psychology, University of Pune. He is engaged in counselling, dealing with the problems of school children in areas like academic achievement, school and family adjustment.)

Abstract

The impact of TV viewing on academic achievement and mathematical reasoning was examined in a group of 654 higher secondary students (368 boys, 286 girls) from Maharashtra, India. Both among boys and girls, TV viewing had significant negative correlations with academic achievement. TV viewing and mathematical reasoning were negatively correlated among boys only. Heavy viewers of television were poor, compared to light viewers, in their academic achievement and mathematical reasoning. Significant gender differences were noted both in academic achievement and mathematical reasoning. TV viewing explained 13% of the variance in the academic achievement of the students.

Suggested Citation

  • B.R. Shejwal & Joy Purayidathil, 2006. "Television Viewing of Higher Secondary Students," Psychology and Developing Societies, , vol. 18(2), pages 201-213, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:psydev:v:18:y:2006:i:2:p:201-213
    DOI: 10.1177/097133360601800203
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/097133360601800203
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1177/097133360601800203?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:sae:psydev:v:18:y:2006:i:2:p:201-213. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: SAGE Publications (email available below). General contact details of provider: .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.