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Aggressors or Victims: Gender and Race in Music Video Violence
Michael Rich, MD, MPH; Elizabeth R. Woods, MD, MPH; Elizabeth Goodman, MD; S. Jean Emans, MD;
and Robert H. DuRant, PhD
ABSTRACT. Objective. To examine portrayals of violence
in popular music videos for patterns of aggression
and victimization by gender and race.
Design and Setting. Content analysis of 518 music
videos broadcast over national music television networks,
Black Entertainment Television (BET), Country
Music Television (CMT), Music Television (MTV), and
Video Hits-1 (VH-1) during a 4-week period at randomly
selected times of high adolescent viewership.
Main Outcome Measures. Differences in the genders
and races portrayed as aggressors and victims in acts of
violence.
Results. Seventy-six (14.7%) of the analyzed music
videos contained portrayals of individuals engaging in
overt interpersonal violence, with a mean of 6.1 violent
acts per violence-containing video. Among the 462 acts of
violence, the music video’s main character was clearly the
aggressor in 80.1% and the victim in 17.7%. In 391 (84.6%)
of the violence portrayals, the gender of the aggressor or
victim could be determined. Male gender was significantly
associated with aggression; aggressors were 78.1%
male, whereas victims were 46.3% female. This relationship
was influenced by race. Among whites, 72.0% of the
aggressors were male and 78.3% of the victims were
female. Although blacks represent 12% of the United
States population, they were aggressors in 25.0% and
victims in 41.0% of music video violence. Controlling for
gender, racial differences were significant among males;
29.0% of aggressors and 75.0% of victims were black. A
logistic regression model did not find direct effects for
gender and race, but revealed a significant interaction
effect, indicating that the differences between blacks and
whites were not the same...
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