Video games causing children to be violent has been a controversial topic for many years. Many people have questioned if video games are the reason why children are so aggressive. “The psychological group reports that more than 90% of children in the united states play video games. Among kids between the ages 12 and 17, the number rises to 97%. More important, 85% or more of video games on the market contain some form of violence.” Stated CNN. Even the games that you think are benign have some sort of battling in them. Are these games teaching children anything good? We will look at different kinds of research to see if children’s aggressiveness has anything to do with the playing of video games. Some social scientist came up with some results
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Video games bring more money than movies and DVDs together. On average, girl spend more than an hour per day playing video games and boys spend more than two hours. Teens spend more time than children do. Video games are designed to be addicting because video game designers, like anyone else are trying to make money off of them like anyone else. Video games have become very realistic. Most games connect to the internet where you can talk to other people playing and play with them. Your child might be playing with an adult you never know what they might be listening too. I read on psychguides that online multiplayer games are very addicting because they generally have no ending. Gamers with this type of addiction enjoy creating and temporarily becoming an online character. They escape from reality. So when children or anyone are forced to turn off the game to eat, sleep or do anything else besides play the game that’s when they might tend to get aggressive.
Not too long ago a review of 300 studies on violent video games and children’s behavior was released. The report came to the conclusion that violent video games present a “risk factor” for heightened aggression in children. Which supports DeCamps hypothesis. Even though it demonstrates a link between the two, playing video games and aggression, the authors acknowledged that some studies were
Video games bring more money than movies and DVDs together. On average, girl spend more than an hour per day playing video games and boys spend more than two hours. Teens spend more time than children do. Video games are designed to be addicting because video game designers, like anyone else are trying to make money off of them like anyone else. Video games have become very realistic. Most games connect to the internet where you can talk to other people playing and play with them. Your child might be playing with an adult you never know what they might be listening too. I read on psychguides that online multiplayer games are very addicting because they generally have no ending. Gamers with this type of addiction enjoy creating and temporarily becoming an online character. They escape from reality. So when children or anyone are forced to turn off the game to eat, sleep or do anything else besides play the game that’s when they might tend to get aggressive.
Not too long ago a review of 300 studies on violent video games and children’s behavior was released. The report came to the conclusion that violent video games present a “risk factor” for heightened aggression in children. Which supports DeCamps hypothesis. Even though it demonstrates a link between the two, playing video games and aggression, the authors acknowledged that some studies were