Child participants were asked to list their 3 favorite television
shows and video games, rate how often they play or view the media
and rate the media’s violence level. Children also reported on their
average weekly viewing time of television and video games,
whether violent or not. This measure has demonstrated good reliability
and validity in previous research (Ferguson et al., 2008).
With the current study the video game violence portion demonstrate
a coefficient alpha reliability of .83, and television violence
demonstrated alpha of .71. Thus this measure includes estimates of
total television and video game viewing time, as well as measures
of television and video game violence exposure