Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Measuring caregiver impact on children’s violent news media exposure: Development and initial validation of the Caregiver Responses to Youth Media Exposure (CRYME).

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Objective: Research to examine specific parenting behaviors in relation to children's exposure and response to violent news has been limited by a dearth of measures with adequate psychometric support. The current report describes the development and initial validation of the Caregiver Responses to Youth Media Exposure (CRYME) Questionnaire. Method: Items were generated based on a literature review and a focus group interview with 6 caregivers. Using data from a second sample of 702 caregivers recruited through Amazon Mechanical Turk, items were submitted to an exploratory factor analysis. Results: The final 35-item CRYME consists of 3 scales: Reassuring Realistically (? = .91), Controlling Contact (? = .90), and Scaring for Safety (? = .86). In support of concurrent and discriminant validity, each CRYME Scale was differentially associated with theoretically relevant measures of family functioning and/or family accommodation of child anxiety; only Scaring for Safety was significantly associated with caregiver anxiety. Controlling Contact and Scaring for Safety but not Reassuring Realistically were positively associated with child anxiety. Conclusion: Results provide preliminary psychometric support for the use of the CRYME to measure parental behaviors that may predict outcomes of children's exposure to violence in the media. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved)