“...a direct  connection between exposure to television violence in childhood and real physical  aggression in young adulthood...”

Because it deals with a timely topic of high social relevance—how watching a lot of TV violence during childhood causes a child to grow up to be more aggressive as a young adult.

Yes, this is the first longitudinal study to date that shows a direct connection between exposure to TV violence in childhood and real physical aggression in young adulthood—15 years later.

It demonstrates that TV violence is indeed one of the important factors that have lasting effects in making children more aggressive.

In 1976 I recognized that there was a need for a longitudinal study which would examine in detail what children were watching on TV and relate it to their aggressiveness many years later. With funding from The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and the collaboration of several colleagues I began the research one year later.