Summary information

Study title

Elementary School and Advertising (Home-Room Teachers)

Creator

Feil, Christine (Deutsches Jugendinstitut (DJI), München )

Study number / PID

ZA2861, Version 1.0.0 (GESIS)

10.4232/1.2861 (DOI)

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Series

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Abstract

The advertising orientation of elementary schoolchildren from the perspective of their teachers. Influences of advertising on the conduct of children. Advertising as topic in instruction. Topics: assumed influence of advertising on the consumer habits of elementary school children; frequency of use of name-brand clothing, name-brand school things, name-brand toys and name-brand snacks on recess; singing advertising songs and conversations about marketing campaigns among the elementary schoolchildren; children´s talking during recess about advertising or newly developed articles; assumed symbol function of use of name-brand items such as group affiliation, independence from grown-ups, provocation of teachers, individual personality, conformity with other children and good appearance; effect of consumption orientation of children on increase in popularity, aggressiveness, social conflicts and exclusion; personal intervention at regular consumption by the children of pre-packaged products on recess and reasons for this; conduct with spread of a new trend among the children; involving the topic of advertising in elementary school instruction as well as information on the subject, content relations, instructional materials used and type of presentation; frequency of the topic of advertising in instruction on selected occasions; reasons for the importance of the topic of advertising in elementary school instruction (scale); assessment of the consequences of instruction about advertising and consumption (scale); opinions about advertising effect and the dealing of the schoolchildren with advertising (scale); adequate instructional materials for advertising education in the elementary school as well as information on personal wishes; use of offerings of public facilities and clubs, such as e.g. traffic education, environmental education, health education or reading competitions; importance of selected pedagogical objectives in instruction about advertising; attitude to...
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Methodology

Data collection period

03/1995 - 07/1995

Country

Time dimension

Cross-section

Analysis unit

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Universe

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Sampling procedure

Probability: Cluster: Simple random
Sample of 200 elementary schools in Bavaria and 150 schools in Brandenburg. Cluster sample of teachers in the grades 1-4 of the selected schools.

Kind of data

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Data collection mode

Self-administered questionnaire: Paper
Mail survey

Access

Publisher

GESIS Data Archive for the Social Sciences

Publication year

1997

Terms of data access

A - Data and documents are released for academic research and teaching.

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