Smoking Scene in Movies and Antismoking Advertisements before Movies-Effects on Youth

Topic

Smoking Scene in Movies and Antismoking Advertisements before Movies-Effects on Youth

Instructions

For whichever ONE article you select, you are asked to give a brief report (i.e., maximum of 600 words) on the background of the research problem under investigation, summarize what the author(s) found, and finally, indicate what someone might do in future studies.
In your research article report, be sure to answer the following questions:
1) What were the hypotheses of the research, or the purposes for which the research was carried out? Identify the independent and dependent variables.
2) What were the methods used for testing the hypotheses?
3) What safeguards of research participants’ (sometimes referred to as ‘subjects’) rights and well-being were included in this research? Are there any safeguards that should have been included?
4) What were the main results of the study, and how do they relate to the hypotheses?
5) If you had the opportunity, what further experiments would you carry out to shed some more light on this area of research?

Answer preview

The purpose or the hypothesis of the study is to establish how on-screen smoking by film stars attracts and influences the young viewers into smoking. Furthermore, the study examines whether depicting antismoking advertisement prior to the film might act as a measure on the impacts of on-screen smoking among the young viewers. The independent variable in this study include the ages of the 800 ninth graders used in the research study, aged between 14-15 years. The dependent variable is smoking in films.

Word count: 480