The influence of television stories on narrative abilities in children

  1. Jesús Bermejo Berros 1
  2. Ana Aierbe Barandiaran 2
  3. Eider Oregui González 2
  4. Isabel Bartau Rojas 2
  1. 1 Universidad de Valladolid
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    Universidad de Valladolid

    Valladolid, España

    ROR https://ror.org/01fvbaw18

  2. 2 Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
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    Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea

    Lejona, España

    ROR https://ror.org/000xsnr85

Journal:
Psicológica: Revista de metodología y psicología experimental

ISSN: 1576-8597

Year of publication: 2018

Volume: 39

Issue: 1

Pages: 118-141

Type: Article

DOI: 10.2478/PSICOLJ-2018-0006 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openOpen access editor

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Abstract

This research explores the narrative abilities demonstrated by children aged between 8 and 12 in the production of television stories. The results reveal that not all television stories viewed by children foster the informal education process. One type of story, termed narrativizing, enables children to produce coherent stories which clearly articulate the causal, temporal and motivational relations, as well as the means-end structures, the proximal relations of the intrigue and the distal relations of the plot. Other television stories, denarrativizing stories, tend to induce disarrangements and incoherence at all structural levels of the stories produced by children. This in turn hampers the development of their narrative abilities, which are necessary to the correct development of narrative thought. These results indicate the need to exercise social control over this latter type of fictional television narrative, to which children are exposed throughout their development within the framework of informal education.

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Funding information

This research project was supported by the University of the Basque Country Research Projects [EHU 13/65 and GIU 15/14] and by Formation and Research Units [UFI 11/04]. Also, Eider Oregui has a Predoctoral Contract granted in the Convocatory for Doctoral Formation 2015 [BES-2015-071923], contemplated in the State Subprogram Formation, of the State Program for Promotion of Talent and Employability in I+D+i, within the framework of State Plan of Scientific and Technical Research and Innovation 2013-2016, financed by the State Secretary for Investigation, Development and Innovation of the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness of the Government of Spain and co-financed by the European Social Fund.

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