Media influence on deviant behaviour of adolescence: Teachers’ perception

There is growing concern regarding the relationship between exposure to media and deviant behaviour. The younger generation is too much passionate in imitating heroes of movies and blindly accepting deviant cultural and social interactions in media. Knowingly or unknowingly today’s adolescents are following it without any concern about our attitude, tradition and social interaction. The present study aims to analyse teachers’ perception on media influence on deviant behaviour of adolescents in Kerala. The study was conducted among 30 higher secondary school teachers from five government schools of the five districts of Kerala state through random sampling technique. Two major objectives of the study were to identify recurring deviant thematic content in various types of media in the perception of teachers and to identify additional factors that render adolescents more vulnerable to deviant media. Questionnaires were used to collect data. Result of the study revealed that Violence, Social intolerance, Glamour and power and Glamorizing and disrespect for women were the recurring deviant thematic content and factors like Family environment, Socio-economic environment, Race and gender and Locus of control were vulnerable to deviant behaviour. The study seeks importance in the present realm to give better concern to our adolescents on how to be a better social individual.