Exploring Young Men Gender Constructions - The Asian Media ...

and middle adulthood range. The highly conscientious, moderately extraverted and open
and mildly neurotic and agreeable participants reveal a detached viewing style that is
driven by strength in deliberation. However, deliberation is more enduring or immediate
in the area of narrative format than personal aspects like character traits, values or
relationships which are more attached to women viewers or characters. Have the past
and current series and serial dramas viewed by the participants represented men
enough, enough to make them lead characters and not mere support to women
actresses, so that male viewers are more easily drawn to personal aspects rather
than technicalities in narratives While the programs cited by the participants
clearly indicate NO as the answer, it has yet to be strengthened with experiences of
more male viewer informants. The fact remains, though, that females as lead
characters in series and serial dramas do not discourage male viewers to view the
genre and seek identification with other characters who are primarily extraverted in
terms of assertiveness, and conscientious in dutifulness and deliberation. In effect,
while the vertizontal connection of series and serial dramas with the male
participants is founded initially on the sex, and correlated to a limited extent to the
sexual preference, of the character they identify with, the personality traits of
characters which the viewers also possess strengthen it and the vertical connections,
as well.
The participants, being highly individuated and varying in their viewing
preferences and recall, lack a community built upon a common series or serial drama.
The individuation is influenced significantly by family members and situations, personal