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Animated children’s films can be seen as integral parts of western children’s culture and are very popular among their young target group. Accordingly an accurate scientific examination of these film’s contents seems useful. Previous quantitative content analyses are mainly concerned with “classic” Disney animated films. There is less research regarding more modern computer-animated films from different film studios. Thus the aim of the quantitative content analysis in this study is to contribute to the research field by examining portrayals in 20 very popular computer-animated films from 2000 to 2013. The focus here is on the relations between demographic, physical, linguistic as well as on personality-based and behavioral features of the film characters and their “goodness” or rather “evilness”. In conjunction with analyses of extreme groups the features of particularly “good” or rather particularly “evil” film characters are also taken into account.
In addition the features of film characters undergoing a fundamental change of their “goodness” or “evilness” during the film plot are examined. Hereby a comprehensive picture of depiction-tendencies regarding the “goodness” or rather the “evilness” of animated film characters and of the extent to which they may be associated with certain stereotypes should be enabled. In the theoretical part of this study important findings from the actual state of research concerning typical depictions in animated children’s films are summed up. Then theories and empirical findings about possible effects on children who watch such films are described. Subsequently in the empirical part of the study the methodological approach in this content analysis is explained and the corresponding results are mentioned and discussed with regard to possible effects and pedagogical conclusions. The findings indicate that the portrayal of “good” and “evil” in the films examined as a whole can be considered as stereotypical only in some points: For example “good” film characters are significantly more attractive and achieve better results at the end of a film compared to “evil” characters. But in total the findings of this content analysis can be viewed rather positive, also regarding potential effects on children. Nevertheless further research on that topic can deemed to be of concern.
Since the 1990s special platforms exist on the internet which offer information and communication for people with eating disorder. Their function is consistently and ambivalently discussed. The study analyses the expectations and the perceived benefit of the persons who use self-help internet platforms and identifies moderators. Data of 230 user of a self-help platform were collected. Scales about general motives of internet use were modified and provided a basis. Results: The most important factor for gratifications sought and obtained was social helpfulness in terms of reciprocal social support. Furthermore the will to recovery (gratification sought) and convenient information retrieval (gratification obtained) played an important role. Significant moderators for gratifications sought were psychological strain, the age of the user and the duration of eating disorder. Gratifications obtained were primarily influenced by the degree of utilization of the platform offers and the use of non-medial offers. The results confirm cues to reasons of use from former studies and concretize them by explicit factors of gratifications sought and obtained. The study has been a first effort to create a theoretical model in the context of media psychological research. Thus also moderators with impact on gratifications sought and obtained for user of such internet platforms could be identified.