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Publication details [#40659]

Bulck, Jan Van den. 2004. Research Note: the Relationship between Television Fiction and Fear of Crime: An Empirical Comparison of Three Causal Explanations. European Journal of Communication 19 (2) : 239–248.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

aggression | television

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This article compares three hypotheses regarding the relationship between television viewing and fear of crime: the cultivation hypothesis, the mood management hypothesis, the withdrawal hypothesis and a null model using structural equation models.