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June 19, 2026Criminal Psychology Science and PracticeOpen Access

Differential Characteristics and Content Preferences of Media Violence Exposure Among Chinese Adolescents: A Multi-Method Study

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MZMeng ZhangYDYifei DouFZFengqi Zhang

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Randomized trial investigates media violence exposure and content preferences in adolescents, suggesting targeted interventions are needed.

Key Points

  • This research aims to explore how different factors affect media violence exposure and preferences among Chinese adolescents.
  • Utilized a multi-method design including a questionnaire survey and scenario-based experiment.
  • Study 1 involved a questionnaire with 601 adolescents across multiple provinces for descriptive and comparative analyses.
  • Study 2 included a scenario-based experiment with 261 adolescents to evaluate perceptions of violence across different media types.
  • Smartphones were the primary device for online media use at 91.00%, with 85.36% of adolescents regularly watching videos.
  • Boys and adolescents from rural areas showed significantly higher media violence exposure than girls and urban peers (t = 5.98, p < 0.001).
  • Adolescents perceived news videos as more violent but reported higher comprehension and familiarity with gaming and animation videos (p < 0.05).

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Zhang et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a34ddaf65a5b0777af2d61chttps://doi.org/10.65603/cpsp01020003
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