The database used: GoogleScholar
Search 1
- Keyword: Violence cartoons
- Number of results: 80, 900
Search 2
- Keyword: The effect of inappropriate animation on children
- Number of results: 53,255
Search 3
- Keyword: The effect of animation on children’s mental health
- Number of results: 5,375.
The resources in Google Scholar are very rich, and almost all of my quotes come from there. One of the downsides of having too many resources is that it’s hard to sift through. However, although there are a lot of journals containing keywords, there are still many that do not meet my survey topic. I will make more fine screening in these materials later.
The database used: ERIC (EBSCO)
Search 1
- Keyword: Violence cartoons
- Number of results: 21
Search 2
- Keyword: The effect of inappropriate animation on children
- Number of results: 564
Search 3
- Keyword: The effect of animation on children’s mental health
- Number of results: 517
Source possibilities:
(2000). Reducing the aggression-promoting effect of violent cartoons by increasing children’s fictional involvement with the victim: A study of active mediation, Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 44(1), 125-142. DOI: 10.1207/s15506878jobem4401_9
Brodkin, A. M. (2005). Between Teacher & Parent: The effect of television violence on children. Early Childhood Today (EJ738458). ERIC. http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/ect.
Habib, K., & Soliman, T. (2015). Cartoons’ effect in changing children mental response and behavior. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 3, 248-264. DOI: 10.4236/jss.2015.39033.
Sultan, F., & Hasan, Z. (2021). Parental perception about western cartoon on child’s mental in Pakistan. Pakistan Journal of Rehabilitation, 9(2), 48–53. Retrieved from: http://ojs.zu.edu.pk/ojs/index.php/pjr/article/view/995
Reviewing one source:
Habib, K., & Soliman, T. (2015). Cartoons’ effect in changing children mental response and behavior. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 3, 248-264. DOI: 10.4236/jss.2015.39033.
This article I reviewed made a detailed statistical survey of the time children of each age spent watching cartoons, studied the development process of children’s brains, and explained why cartoons affect children’s brains and thoughts with scientific theories. Yes, compared with books and teachers, children are far more attracted to cartoon content than traditional academic learning methods. Because of the color and audio-visual effects of cartoons, children will absorb information better than listening to teachers in the classroom.
Next, the article uses several groups of experiments to test whether children’s aggressive behavior increases after watching cartoons, which is exactly one of the questions I want to study: “Will violent cartoons make children violent?” The conclusion is in the form of pie charts, and tables, which intuitively shows us that cartoons have such a great psychological impact on children.
This article makes me think there are many helpful points. For example, it takes children of different ages as research objects, which can be used to study, “Are older children less affected?” It studies the influence of positive and negative cartoons on children, which reminds us that cartoons are not only negative, if the right cartoons are chosen to show children, as mentioned above, children will absorb this positive information at an amazing speed. At the same time, it experimentally studied the negative effects of the two main factors of “violence” and “sex” on children, provided us with many examples, and inserted a number of visual illustrations. This systematic step by step in-depth firmly captured my interest and made me more enthusiastic about this research.