TELEVISION AND METACOGNITION: MINORS EXPOSED TO CELEBRITIES

Control of television for minors is justified, as evidenced in this article, in terms of the importance of celebrities and fictional characters for their evolutionary development and self-esteem levels and metacognition. As we know, these celebrities and fictional characters represent conduct models to follow, especially preteens, who may adopt them in the time phase for cognitive development in which parents are de-idealized to idealize celebrities that children choose as their conduct models in their continuous search of their own abilities and skills. On television, the values common to all cultures ( power, achievement, stimulation, hedonism, self-direction, universalism, benevolence, tradition, conformity and security) are represented by the characters and celebrities appearing on their spaces, indicating to the preteen those values that give social prestige and those that absolutely do it, minors being the ones who must decide on their own account. Throughout this piece of research, we demonstrate how preteens interact with their favorite celebrities and what the role of those characters in their daily lives is.