Influence of Audiovisual Products Consumed by Children and Teenagers on their Proper Biopsychosocial Development
Abstract:
The continuous advancement and development of information and communication technologies has led to the classical forms of leisure for children and adolescents to vary more and more every day. Such is the case of audiovisual consumption, an activity that is highly preferred by these age groups, displacing the realization of other fundamental activities for these stages to the background. Therefore, this research aims to determine the influence of audiovisual products consumed by children and adolescents on their proper biopsychosocial development; in addition to describing the role played by parents in the audiovisual consumption activity of their children; for this, a qualitative methodology was implemented, focused on documentary analysis. From which it was found that the programs preferred by children are mostly aimed at the adult audience, as well as foreign-made. In the same way, it is evident that the mediator role of parents focuses on the establishment of limits and the control of the frequency, schedule, time of consumption, leaving aside the joint viewing and the active discussion of the audiovisual materials consumed, and obviating the control of the type of content consumed by their children. Elements that lead to a considerable risk in the proper development of children and adolescents when exposed to materials with contents that are not in accordance with their age and consumerist lifestyles that come into conflict with our values.
