The thesis carries out empirical research of parents questionnaire survey, children nomination survey, children interview survey and experimentation. Study one gets a preliminary understanding of children's favorite cartoons,... [ view full abstract ]
The thesis carries out empirical research of parents questionnaire survey, children nomination survey, children interview survey and experimentation. Study one gets a preliminary understanding of children's favorite cartoons, cartoon characters and reasons. Study two explores the reasons and influence factors of children's loving for cartoon characters, and comprehends children's evaluation and inclination of anime characters. Third, the thesis carries out experimental validation of children's image evaluation and preference of the cartoon characters. The conclusions:
1. Children love cartoons , especially Chinese cartoons. They focus their attention during watching and have many imitation behaviors .
2. Cartoons of heroes, magic, family, adventure are much-loved by children.
3. First, from the social cognitive dimension, high capacity and high enthusiasm have high word frequency.
4. The animation characters’ gender, ability, enthusiasm has the remarkable influence to children’s affection for them.
5. Children's favorite cartoon characters successively are high enthusiasm and high ability character.
6. For the high ability animated characters , 6-year-old children love male characters more . For the low ability animated characters , 6-year-old children love female characters more .
