Abstract
The relationship between amount of television watching and level of family tension was studied through interviews carried out in 64 Minneapolis households. Higher tension levels were found in families with high levels of television watching. Some of the effect may be due to frustrations stemming from television set operation. But the finding of a stronger relationship between television watching and number of conflicts, arguments, disagreements, or complaints over television in households with low population density suggests even more strongly that television set operation is used to prevent tense interaction, particularly in households that are so crowded that people cannot easily use spatial separation to control tense interaction.
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