STUDY OF TELEVISION VIEWING HABITS OF CHILDREN BY AGE AND GENDER

This study aims at determining whether age and gender of children attending fourth and fifth year of elementary education have an effect on the television viewing periods, program types viewed and television viewing times in the week days and the weekends. Study was conducted on a total of 315 voluntary children attending three elementary schools that were selected randomly at Kırşehir provincial center. A “Questionnaire” was used to collect information on the children and their television viewing habits in the study. The study revealed that while gender was effective in terms of television viewing periods in the week days and on the weekends (p .001, p .005) while age was not effective in terms television viewing periods and television program types viewed in the week days and on the weekends (p .005).