Sensation seeking and the use and selection of media materials |
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Authors: | Hall Alice |
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Affiliation: | University of Missouri-St. Louis, Department of Communication, 63121, USA. halla@umsl.edu |
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Abstract: | 175 individuals recruited from urban universities (n=82) and the surrounding community (120 women, 55 men; 82 18- to 25-yr.-olds, 26 26- to 34-yr.-olds, 44 35- to 50-yr.-olds, 23 50 yr. old or over) completed a sensation seeking scale and measures of the frequency with which they used specific media and selected specific television programming, film, and music genres. Regression analyses showed Sensation Seeking to be associated positively with Movie Theatre Attendance and with the Selection of Urban Music Genres. Sensation Seeking was also associated negatively with Selection of Light Film Genres. |
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