Медиаобразование: социологические опросы (стр. 24 )

Entertainment was the leading factor in the student’s reasons for watching violence, too. Moreover, in contradistinction to teachers, pupils did not attribute much importance to the skills of a director (2%), informational factor (7%) and compensatory (7%) factor of screen texts.

Anyway, both teachers and students agree on the main point - entertainment - is still the leading factor drawing people to media violence.

Table 4. Reasons for Resentment against the Screen Violence

Teachers’ Age/Gender	Motivations for not liking on-screen violence:
Hatred toward violence of any kind	Disgust towards seeing blood and crippled people	Not wanting to experience negative emotions	Belief that violence on the screen increases violence in real life	Fear of violence of any kind
Number of Teachers in % who gave this reason:
21-30 /total	20,00	50,00	30,00	70,00	10,00
21-30/male	0,00	0,00	0,00	100,00	0,00
21-30/female	28,57	71,43	42,86	57,14	14,28
31-40/total	33,33	58,33	58,33	83,33	16,67
21-30/male	25,00	50,00	75,00	100,00	0,00
21-30/female	37,50	62,50	50,00	75,00	25,00
41-50/total	54,55	36,36	45,45	81,82	27,27
41-50/male	25,00	50,00	25,00	100,00	0,00
41-50/female	71,43	42,86	57,14	71,43	42,86
51-60/total	25,00	58,33	66,67	83,33	16,67
51-60/male	20,00	60,00	60,00	100,00	0,00
51-60/female	28,57	47,14	71,43	100,00	28,57
61-70/total	41,67	58,33	66,67	100,00	25,00
61-70/male	50,00	50,00	0,00	100,00	50,00
61-70/female	40,00	60,00	70,00	100,00	20,00
All age groups /Total	35,09	54,38	56,14	80,70	19,30
All age groups/male	22,22	44,44	50,00	88,89	5,55
All age groups/female	41,02	58,97	58,97	82,05	25,64

The analysis of the Table 4 gives a rather clear vision of what is the most repulsive about scenes of violence for the teachers. First of all, it’s their belief that the screen violence does effect the growth of crimes in society (80%). After that there are such factors as the disgust at the sight of blood, gore, graphic images of violence; unwillingness to experience disturbing emotions; fear of any kind of violence.

Maximum gender differences emerge in the question of fear of violence (25% of women and 5% of men), and resentment of any kind of violence (41% of women and 22% of men), which corresponds to the “braver” men’s status in any group of the people participating in the study.

Teachers from 41 to 70 are the most strongly resentful towards media violence. The same age group is the most convinced that the screen violence has an impact on the growth of violence in real life.

The comparison of the teachers’ and students’ opinions shows that the last are more tolerable towards screen violence. Only 20% of students (compared to 80% of teachers) think that it affects the violence in society. The gore disgusts 25% of the students (54% of teachers). Experiencing the unpleasant emotions is a reason of not-watching the violent episodes for 18% of the students (56 % teachers), and the resentment of any violence - 21% (35% of the teachers). Both teachers and students percentage agree on the question of fear of violence.

Table 5. Whom do the Teachers Usually Watch Violent Content Programs with

Teachers’ Age/Gender	The type of company with whom teachers prefer to watch on-screen violence:
Alone	Friends	Girlfriend/Boyfriend/Spouse	Parents	Students	Children/Grandchildren	Strangers
Number of Teachers in % who gave this type of company:
21-30 /total	40,00	60,00	50,00	10,00	0,00	0,00	0,00
21-30/male	66,67	66,67	33,33	0,00	0,00	0,00	0,00
21-30/female	28,57	57,14	57,14	14,28	0,00	0,00	0,00
31-40/total	25,00	75,00	66,67	25,00	25,00	16,67	0,00
21-30/male	50,00	100,00	50,00	25,00	50,00	25,00	0,00
21-30/female	12,50	62,50	75,00	25,00	12,50	12,50	0,00
41-50/total	36,36	72,73	45,45	18,18	36,36	36,36	18,18
41-50/male	50,00	50,00	50,00	25,00	25,00	50,00	50,00
41-50/female	28,57	85,71	42,86	14,28	42,86	28,57	0,00
51-60/total	41,67	58,33	75,00	0,00	16,67	33,33	16,67
51-60/male	60,00	80,00	100,00	0,00	20,00	40,00	0,00
51-60/female	28,57	42,86	47,14	0,00	28,57	42,86	0,00
61-70/total	33,33	83,33	83,33	0,00	16,67	50,00	0,00
61-70/male	50,00	100,00	100,00	0,00	0,00	50,00	0,00
61-70/female	30,00	80,00	80,00	0,00	20,00	50,00	0,00
All age groups /Total	35,09	70,17	64,91	10,53	21,05	29,82	3,51
All age groups/male	55,55	77,78	66,67	11,11	22,22	33,33	11,11
All age groups/female	25,64	66,67	64,10	10,26	20,51	28,20	0,00

The data of Table 5 tells us that generally teachers watch programs/movies with violent content in the company of their partners/spouses (65-70%). Further on follow: watching alone (35%), with children/grandchildren (30%), with students (21%), with parents (10%) and with strangers (3%). Noticeably, men tend to watch violent programs by themselves twice more as women. Not a singe woman teacher marked strangers (e. g. in a movie theatre) as companions to watch movies with violent content.