Television and Adolescent Conventionality: An Exploratory Study

Abstract
The degree to which psychological involvement with television is associated with conventional values, attitudes, and behaviors among adolescent youth was investigated in two independent questionnaire studies of high school and college youth. The findings of both studies strongly suggest that involvement with television is associated with a syndrome of conventionality. These findings were consistent for younger and older adolescents, for males and females at both age levels, and for samples which differed markedly in a variety of other respects.