Media with negative influence on children in the U.S. 2012

The graph presents media with negative influence on children, according to the views of American teachers expressed in May 2012. During the Common Sense Media survey, 56 percent of teachers stated they believed computer games had negative influence on children's academic performance.

Percentage of teachers who believe media have negative influence on children in the United States in 2012, by medium

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Release date

November 2012

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Region

United States

Survey time period

May 5-17, 2012

Number of respondents

base: n = 685 teachers

Method of interview

Online panel

Supplementary notes

* Number of respondents: n = 544 (teachers who said media have been harmful to their students in their academic performance).
** Number of respodents: n = 589 (teachers who thought entertainment media had any negative effect on their students regarding their social development).
The original question posed by the source was:
- for academic performance: "Please mark the types of media use that you think have been most harmful to your students on this/these issue[s]:"
- for social development: "Please mark the types of media use that you think have had the biggest negative effect to your students on this/these issue[s]:".

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