The Effects Of Video Games On Young Children And Growing Teenagers

Over the past few centuries,video games have become a great leisure and hobby among kids of all ages and cultures. With the advancement of technology, video games have advanced highly in its realism and genres. This high type of advancement brought the video game industry to a multi-billion dollar industry. However, with realism, comes negative effects as well. Ever since the creation of violent or “mature” video games, there has been a constant debate on whether it will increase violence in the player. Although, not all video games are violent, and just increase skills in a player such as hand-eye coordination. Nevertheless, there is research going on for the link between violent video games and youth violence. The question is which event happens first in the sequence, do violent video games aggravate a person’s violent behavior, or does a person get rid of their anger through playing violent video games? Either way, violent video games are not beneficial to our society.

Content analyses show that 89% of video games have some violent content. Half of the video games on the market have extreme violent actions toward other characters. Games, today, are allowing players to not only connect with the game physically, but also emotionally and psychologically. In essence, the player becomes the character. According to Nielson Media Research, at least 45 million households in the United States have at least one video game console (Markey & Charlotte, 2010). The average age of video game players has increased to age 34, and 60% of Americans play interactive games on a regular basis. However, researchers believe that younger children are more susceptible to the negative effects of playing violent video games compared to older teenagers and adults. Furthermore, games that include violence have raised serious concerns among

A huge controversy in today’s society is violent video games and their behavioral effect on the children and adults who play them. Violent video games have been blamed for bullying, school shootings, and even violence towards women. Many have fought that violent video games desensitize players to real-life violence, and that they are teaching the youth that violence is an acceptable conflict-solving strategy. Other sources have stated otherwise. The 2004 Secret Service has stated that only one-eighth of attackers have exhibited interests in video games. Violent Video games do not cause violent behavior or behavior problems because it has not been proven that there is a link between violent video games and behavioral issues, playing video games provide a safe outlet for aggressive and angry feelings and reduces violence in young children, and violent juvenile crime has actually gone down since the violent video game popularity has increased.

The modern society has innovations that enable people react and invest in their time having several activities. In the event to promote an insight that would play a role in reuniting a certain population, technology has been upfront in the ways that would sustain this growth (Egenfeldt-Nielsen et al. 67). This study will cover on the various statistics, basing their arguments on the positive impact of video games for the people who play them.

As many as 97% of US kids age 12-17 play video games, contributing to the $21.53 billion domestic video game industry. More than 50% of games have violence. (Procon.org) Video games that have violence have been blamed to have caused bullying, mass shootings, and violence towards women. (Procon.org) An estimated four out of five US households with a male child own a video game system and worldwide series of video games are predicted to reach $102.9 billion in 2017. (Procon.org) Critics argue that these games desensitize players to violence and it rewards players for simulating violence . (Procon.org)

There has been quite a bit of controversy between what the real effect video games are having on teenagers. Although everybody swings one way or another, most can agree that albeit video games may or may not be bad, the overuse of these games, can be and is a major problem in the world. Many believe that video games have an exponentially negative effect on teenagers. Many believe that video games desensitize players. In a 2005 study, violent video game exposure has been linked to reduced P300 amplitudes in the brain, which is associated with desensitization to violence and increases in aggressive behavior. Furthermore, these types of games often times reward players for killing, defacing public property, and stimulating violence. Games such as Call of Duty, and Grand Theft Auto, seem to cause players to feel happiness and joy in creating pain and havoc. However, there is another side to this story. Others believe that video games are contributing to an increasingly safe and more friendly atmosphere in the United States. In fact, sales of video games had more than quadrupled in 1995-2008, while the arrest rate for juvenile murders fell 71.9%, and the arrest rate for all juvenile violent crimes declined 49.3% in this same period. Even more, is the thought that, playing violent video games provides a safe outlet for aggressive and heated feelings. A study from 2007 reported that 45% of boys played video games because "it helps me get my anger out". Not only that, but another

Technology has been evolving since the days of the cavemen and has become an integral component of our everyday life. Technology has been integrated in education, media, the workplace, and our world runs around the evolution and ever developing fast pace of technology. Modern technology especially effects the youth of today’s day and age, because they have grown up with extremely advanced technology and are completely engrossed by it. The primary concern people have concerning children and technology is the negative effects video games have on their developing mind. Video games may potentially affect children’s attention span, motor skills, computer literacy, and possible cases of violent behavior being

The popularity of video-games, especially violent video games, has reached phenomenal proportions. The theoretical line of reasoning that hypothesizes a causal relationship between violent video-game play and aggression draws on the very large literature on media violence effects. Additionally, there are theoretical reasons to believe that video game effects should be stronger than a movie or television violence effects. This paper outlines what is known about the relationship between violent video-game playing and aggression. Also, to determine other factors apart from video games that contribute to anti-social behavior in young people and children, and to identify countermeasures that can be put in place so that video games cannot affect young people negatively. Many teenagers in America who use violent video games have exhibited anti-social behaviors in all aspects of life in the community.

Normally when a child acts out, misbehaves, or shows violence people might try and link this bad behavior to something in the child’s life. Video games are often the target for such accusations. It makes sense that with all of the violent content television and video games have to offer with shows like Game of Thrones or games like Grand Theft Auto, that it is no wonder children show signs of violence, right? Then why does developmental psychologist Dr. Marilyn Price Mitchell disagree that video games are the sole cause of violence in children? Video games have many times been linked to violence in children; however, studies have shown that they may have more of a positive influence than one might think. Video games are not to be blamed for violent behavior in children because the potentially negative effect they have could be avoided by simply educating children about the bad content featured on certain games.

Today’s generation of video games are full of violence and gore. Violence is implemented as means to attract the general audience who find it entertaining. The impact and influence of video games is seen in the seventy-five percent of American adolescents who spend forty percent of their day directed towards playing games (Glazer 937). Games are capable of creating emotions varying from sorrow to absolute gratification. When you ask someone what they think of a game, they might answer “fun”. While the response sounds positive, it can actually be the complete opposite. People might find “fun” in being able to race against their buddies while other people find “fun” in cutting off an opponent’s head. Such instances are what worry parents about their children becoming violently aggressive. Now, it is not only the content of the video game itself that can cause aggression, but games in general can do this too. Video game companies always aim to fulfill the player 's experience of need satisfaction (PENS) in order to make a successful outcome of sales. Games who meet the player experience of need satisfaction requirements such as competence, autonomy, and relatedness can really get consumers latched onto a game. Players then become addicted to a game and in turn become isolated. Disturbing the player while he or she is trying to reach the main objective will often result in not necessarily hostility but simple irritation. Such a scenario would be your mother asking you to “pause

“Recent contents analyses of video games show that many as 89% of games contain some violent contents” (Gentile, Lynch, Linder, Walsh 3). More than half of video games being sold around the world contain some form of violence. All of the violence involved in the video games being played by children is a pattern leading to aggression. Aggression can be caused by many things; however, violent video games are the main cause of aggression in young adults. “If a child began playing violent video games at a young age, then he might think that violence in real life is the same as the game violence and that it doesn’t have a real impact on others” (Gilad, Alto 1). Thinking that violence in the virtual world is the same as in the real world is the first step to showing aggression. Aggression in children caused by video games is the biggest effect parents and researchers worry about. Violent video games teach children that shooting and killing people are

My friend, 33-year-old from Mumbai city was addicted to online 3D fantasy-themed role-playing game. He sacrificed everything so he could play for hours, ignoring his family, quitting his job and losing himself in a 3-D virtual world where more than 100,000 people worldwide adventure in a never-ending fantasy. On Diwali morning few years back, he hung himself to death at his apartment. His mother blames the game for her son 's suicide. She is angry that the company, which owns and runs this virtual world, won 't give her the answers she desires.

While video games have received much criticism for their lack of teaching qualities, there are many positive aspects to them. Video games are an excellent way for children to meet, interact with and socialize with new people from across the country and even the globe. Although video games are drawing kids inside more, and thus giving them a reason to not be as active as they once were; they are giving children a new space to express themselves and to grow their creativity to new levels as many of the activities performed are either dangerous or nearly impossible to do in real life. In her essay, Games and the Media: The Acquisition of Social Structure and Social Rules, Maria Heller argues that the violence experienced in video games has a negative impact on children, however from research I have conducted from other sources, video games, especially Minecraft, have a great enough positive impact to outweigh the negatives. Children collaborate online and share their ideas while also playing in the same “lobbies” to jointly work on different projects and to easily give their inputs to their friends.

Are there people who have never played video games at least once in their adolescence? You might recall some happy memories of playing video games with your best friends or that your parents punished you because you spent a lot of time playing video games. Most school teachers and parents are apt to think that playing video games in adolescence might only have negative impacts on adolescents. Playing video games is considered one of the top obstacles to academic performance and maintaining attention spans. Although these facts are partially true, there are positive effects of playing video games in some ways such as entertainment, development of social interaction and movement skills. This essay will cover the positive and negative effects of playing video games on adolescents’ physical, psychological/social aspects. In these divisions, I will discuss about the relationship between playing video games and the level of physical activity which is related to obese, aggressive behavior which is related to violence, social interaction and comfort effect of video games. Also, I will consider the significance of this issue.

The activity I had chosen for this assignment is as follows; every day in my house I have always noticed how my siblings, precisely my brothers enjoy spending plenty of hours playing video games such as PS4 and X-box. On a particular day, I decided to try and play for the first time, their video games. I noticed that as they walked into their room and saw me trying to use the gamepads I could tell that they were bewildered by their facial expression. The first question they had asked me, was what I was doing? And I told them that I wanted to play one of their video games. Given my response, they seemed to think that I was been sarcastic. Furthermore, while I was trying to figure out how certain buttons on the gamepads function, they had told me how video games are not meant for girls the other ‘’manly’’ and such kinds of games would take a longer time for me to learn. Furthermore, the reason I choose to do this activity is because the activity relates to the materials and topics of the course, it also helped me understand the teachings discussed in the course that can be applied in a practical way in everyday life. This activity also enlightened me on ways to how gendered stereotypes exist and how it is depicted in modern day society, through the medium of video games.