期刊名称：SCHOLARLY RESEARCH JOURNAL FOR HUMANITY SCIENCE & ENGLISH LANGUAGE
电子版ISSN：2348-3083
出版年度：2014
卷号：1
期号：4
页码：485-491
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出版社：SCHOLARLY RESEARCH JOURNAL'S
摘要：The research was done to study the influence of T.V viewing on mental health of adolescents. A sample of 400 students was randomly selected from different schools of tarn taran city. Sample was divided into two categories, being adolescents who watched T.V less than 2-4 hrs/day were considered, not to be influenced by T.V viewing whereas adolescents who watched T.V more than 5-6 hrs/day were considered, to be influenced by T.V viewing. The purpose of the study was to compare the mental health of these two categories. The results depicted that mental health of adolescents boys and girls did not differ from each other irrespective of their being watching more or less T.V. Overall result showed that mental health of adolescents under the influence of T.V viewing is good as compared to those not influenced by T.V. Parents and teachers, both can derive benefits from this study as they can help adolescents to improve their T.V viewing patterns without ignoring their studies. Key Words: Influence, Television, Mental Health, adolesencent
