Abstract
One important recent trend in mass communication research and development studies is the focus on children's abilities to comprehend emotions and actions portrayed through televised drama. This study explored the social correlates of the interpretive abilities of young children in the assessment of televised narratives. In this study forty‐four pre‐school children viewed preconstructed videotapes and responded to interpretive tests. Their parents responded to a questionnaire concerning the child's background and experience with media. A number of hypotheses were tested concerning the correlates of children's comprehension skills. Though most were not confirmed, the study did demonstrate important correlations concerning the amount of TV viewing by parents and children's TV comprehension‐‐the correlations were negative, indicating that the more parents viewed TV, the worse their children performed on comprehension tests.
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