Violent Video Games and Aggression in Children

In the past 30 years, playing video games has become one of the most popular hobbies in the world. Not only has the video game industry become a multibillion dollar industry, it has attracted people of all ages. Today's video games are done by children and adults, but there are many questions about the effects of video games. Specifically, violent video games can affect children. Some critics believe that video games are a direct indicator of the aggression of children, but advocates of video games suggest that direct attacks between children's aggression and violent video games He argues that there is no relation.

Not all studies find associations between violent video game exposures and child attacks. However, most of the work shows relationships. In a recent meta-analysis of 98 studies including 36,965 participants, violent video games showed persuasive social behavior. The fact that research takes many forms increases the certainty of this relationship. There are tasks to observe the causal relationship of the game by asking the lab to play a violent game, and there is also a game to measure the behavior of each group in social tasks. These studies show that playing violent games can lead to immediate changes in behavior. For example, after playing a violent game, participants may "punish" an invisible opponent with a noisy task rather than a peer who played a non-violent video game.

The second review published in the journal Psychological Science analyzes 42 violent video games and research on children's aggression. Researchers found a strong link between violent video games and the positive behavior of children and youngsters. "These results clearly support the hypothesis that violent video games pose a public health threat to children and young people, including university students." The third meta-analysis published in Lancet magazine , All media and violent evidence in 2005. We have summarized five independent systematic reviews including the above two.

A few days ago the APA Violent Media Working Group announced 300 research reports on violent video games and children's behavior. This report claims that violent video games are "risk factors" against children's aggression and that they are seeking to improve the video game evaluation system paying attention by violence, but claiming that comment "prove" Although there is a relationship between violent video game play and aggression, some studies are inconsistent and in order to judge whether this leads to criminal violence or crime It is not enough for current research.