Media Influences on Addictive Behaviour

Question 1

Film representations - Sulkunen (2007)

Answer 1

films with scenes of drug involvement contrasted with dullness of ordinary life

Question 2

Film representations - Waylen et al (2011)

Answer 2

360 top US box office films

teenagers who watched films showing actors smoking were more likely to start

Question 3

TV support for problem drinking - Bennett (1991)

Answer 3

change in alcohol-related knowledge but not in attitude or behaviour

Question 4

TV self-help series - Kramer et al (2009)

Answer 4

more in intervention group achieved low-risk drinking than control

Question 5

Anti-drug campaigns

Answer 5

warn teenagers of dangers of cocaine use

included resistant skills and raising self-efficacy