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Media System Dependency Analysis

Media system dependency analysis operationalizes Ball-Rokeach and DeFleur's 1976 theory that media effects are strongest when individuals depend heavily on the media system to attain personal goals — understanding their world, orienting their actions, and finding diversion. The method surveys the intensity of these dependency relations and relates them to cognitive, affective, and behavioral effects of media.

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  1. Ball-Rokeach, S. J., & DeFleur, M. L. (1976). A dependency model of mass-media effects. Communication Research, 3(1), 3–21. DOI: 10.1177/009365027600300101
  2. Ball-Rokeach, S. J. (1985). The origins of individual media-system dependency: A sociological framework. Communication Research, 12(4), 485–510. DOI: 10.1177/009365085012004003

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ScholarGateMedia System Dependency Analysis (Media System Dependency Survey Analysis). Retrieved 2026-06-24 from https://scholargate.app/en/communication/media-dependency-analysis · Dataset: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20539026