Childhood TV violence predicts adult aggressiveness decades later, net of controls

Evidence

In an extended longitudinal project, Huesmann and collaborators found that the amount of televised violence children watched as youngsters predicted their aggressiveness decades later (Huesmann, Moise, Podolski, & Eron, 2003). The more strongly the children identified with the aggressive models, tried to act like them, and saw the programs as portraying what life is really like, the higher their aggressiveness as young adults. The positive relation between watching violent programs and later aggressiveness remains after controlling for childhood aggressiveness, academic achievement, and familial socioeconomic status. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 766

In an extended longitudinal project, Huesmann and collaborators found that the amount of televised violence children watched as youngsters predicted their aggressiveness decades later … The positive relation between watching violent programs and later aggressiveness remains after controlling for childhood aggressiveness, academic achievement, and familial socioeconomic status. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 766

Categorization

• QUESTION: The effect survives controls for childhood aggressiveness — does this persist through adulthood, or is it mediated by ongoing viewing habits?
• corroborated: 4 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 766