The Effects Of Mtv s 16 And Pregnant On Teen Viewers ...

Taking Sides: 16 and Pregnant Popular media submits many teens to sexual content and influences their views on subjects such as teenage pregnancy. The article Evaluating the Impact of MTV’s 16 and Pregnant on Teen Viewers’ Attitudes About Teen Pregnancy takes a closer look at the relationship between the viewers of the show and their attitudes towards teen pregnancy. Three major weaknesses found after the review of the study are listed as follows; The study has several confounding variables, the sample group is rather small and taken from a single state within the US, and lastly, it makes claims without having sufficient evidence from its own findings as well as other studies. However, the way the study was conducted is relatively very†¦show more content†¦Researchers identified several variables such as gender, ethnicity, and the sexual activity of the teens. However, upon reviewing the analysis portion of the study, these variables were not taken into account and pose problems to the val idity of the study’s findings (J. Haupt, Class Lecture, SFL 210, Fall 2017). A claim that the study makes is, â€Å"Overall, girls disagreed more strongly than boys with the notion that becoming a teen parent would help to get their lives on track. Teen boys were less likely than the girls to believe that teen parenthood would have a negative impact on their educational or career goals† (Evaluating the Impact 2010). There could be an error to this claim due to the fact that it did not take all the other variables into account. Girls could have disagreed more strongly due to if the girls in the sample were more sexually active than the boys, or because their views could have been influenced by other things such as their level of education, or religion. When studies are analyzing their findings they must take into account all of the different aspects of the subject’s sphere of influence. Taking these influences into account make would make this study more reliable because the researchers would be able to see if the treatment was the sole factor that stimulated the resulting behavior (Haupt, Fall 2017). Sample Size and Composure. The size of the study consisted of one-hundred and sixty-two teenagers that were selected from eighteen different