Video Games and Their Psychological Effects

Are all children not supposed to watch violent games? This is one of the questions that has been debated by many scientists, each trying to bring forward his/her idea. Some have supported the elimination of violent games from children while others have opposed it. This debate does not only involved scientist alone, but it involves every concerned party since children belong to the whole society. If the violent video game has a negative effect on children, then it will affect the whole society at large. The tread in which children play these games today has increased compared to previous times making many parents wonder the effect of such games on their children. Previous researchers have different findings relating to such games. Some of the researchers have shown that these games have not affected on children using their research to illustrate and prove it. While other studies have not acknowledged the psychological harmfulness of violent video games to children. This paper seeks to establish whether violent video games have psychological harmfulness to children or not using various proves from experts and previous researches on this topic.

The topic that will be introduced and talk about throughout this paper is video game play and some may question video play. Throughout the generation’s parents always tend to get A whole negative effect about it although it can be very distracting at times. In this report it's all about the positive impact video games influence on the people around the world. Video game play will improve one’s skills and enhance memory all around the positive side of video game play it will focus on developing problem solving skills and also focus on individual characteristics

Psychology is the study of people's behavior, performance, and mental operations. Also, it alludes to the application of knowledge, which can be used to understand events, treat mental health issues, and improve employment, education and relationships (Philippe np). Video games have been studied, analyzed, and debated ever since they became introduced. The benefits and dangers of video games are two of the most common topics being debated. The concern for violent video games and its effect on children has risen to the top of the issues with video games. However, with the studies that have been conducted, and the information gathered from these studies, the evidence that violent video games lead to aggressive behaviors is inconclusive.

Over the last decade video games have become a huge controversy. Every day more people play games than living their lives. Which has become a big concern. Video games have disadvantages, like becoming addictive, influencing violence, and causing bad social skills. There have been many studies on the effect video games have on people’s social skills.

Video games became a very important way for today’s people to relax from heavy works or pressures. Parent’s influence is incredible on children’s behaviors: these children can’t wait to try those games after they parents get a lot fun from it. And it is a good method for the adult temporary get rid the worries about their kids’ safety, in contrast to babies have fun on the road, it at least is an indoors activities. So more and more young generation possessed their advanced devices to kill their time after class. And this research paper will just about the video games’ bad influences on children. It not only wasted the youngster time, caused physical damages, and sometimes bad for their characters.

Playing video games has always been a hot topic amongst parents and researchers alike since they were first invented. As such there have been many statistical analyses of video game use worldwide. There have also been many stereotypes that were concocted because of the controversy surrounding video game use; such as playing video games led to students going on murderous rampages at their schools. Studies were then conducted as to determine both the true benefits and detriments of video game use. The benefits range from social skills to making the player’s overall intelligence increase in multiple aspects. The negative effects range from isolation of the player in society, to making the player’s overall health much worse. This data has created many experts in the field of video game use who’s opinions range from banning video games completely, to more practical approaches such as limiting use per day, or to use for real life learning experiences without the “real life.”

For many years, the age-old debate of whether video games lead to violence has caused dismay to parents and children alike. Parents because they fear for their child’s development and children because they fear the restrictions that will be put upon them. The topic itself falls into the much wider realm of censorship and how it should be handled regarding children. Many different types of media including things like television, social media, and video games have become sacrificial lambs for the most violent and aggressive acts that younger people commit. It is important that these distinctions be made to help concerned parents determine if they want their child to consume forms of media like video games and to keep others safe. The two

Video games have been very common types of entertainment in every family and around the globe. They can be played on computers, cellphones, TVs and other electronics. The video game market has become one of the fastest growing businesses and comes in a variety of categories. The impact of video games on the player’s behavior has been controversial for decades. The advocates claim that video games are more than simply a fun that one plays during spare time. They strongly believe that video games are important for cognitive skill development, stress relief, prosocial behavior and reducing mental health disorders. On the other

Video games in the 21st century have transformed from friendly competing into guns, explosions, and major violence. Video games are getting away with more violence every year and the games are becoming more extreme. The consistence and severity of violence is at an all-time high leading the most popular games in the gaming community to have a ‘mature’ rating due to the considerable amount of violence involved. For example, one of the highest selling video games of all time grossing one billion its first weekend, Grand Theft Auto 5, contains gang violence, nudity, and obscene language (Thier 2014). Although the extreme violence is rated accordingly for certain ages, parents often purchase these games for their kids not knowing what is

On average, children under eighteen play about seven hours of video games every day. Two of the three top-selling video games in 2007 were Halo and Grand Theft Auto. These are both games whose descriptions include the words “blood,” “gore,” and “violence.” The violence in these games and the actions that the players take part in may be a harmful influence to the children and teenagers who play them. While playing video games, the players do not even realize that their emotions are flaring and that they are taking their character too seriously. Instead of keeping the character in the virtual reality, they are bringing the character’s traits to real life. When children are younger, they learn from what they see and hear. It might not seem like a big deal but they are learning certain characteristics from these games, especially violent ones, which can shape who they will become in the future. Parents need to be more cautious of the games they let their kids play and how the children spend their time. To the player, seven hours might not seem like a lot, but sitting in a dark room every day playing video games for that period of time has the potential to be dangerous to the player, mentally and physically. The amount of time children spend playing video games every day needs to decrease, especially the amount of time they are playing games in the violent video game category. Instead, parents should introduce children to games that are not rated “Mature” and that are more family

Video games are a basis of entertainment for numerous people worldwide, and its users have been growing continuously over the years. It is a source of digital entertainment which does not generate violent crimes and behaviour. Today, in the United States 91% of adolescents between the years of 2 and 17 are video game users(NPD Group,2011). A national illustrative study of U.S. adolescents established that about 99% of boys and 94% of girls are video game users (Lenhart et al., 2008). Vast majority of psychological research on the impacts of “gaming” has concentrated deeply on the harmful impacts: the possible harm linked to aggression, addiction, and depression (Anderson et al., 2010; Ferguson, 2013; Lemola et al., 2011). However, it is unlikely that this attention will be reduced or changed in the coming years, partly because of the significant media responsiveness when mass slayings (e.g., the Columbine High School slayings in 1999) linked to adolescents that play video games which are violent (Ferguson, 2007). However, this essay will argue that considering these potential benefits of video games is necessary, as the nature of the video games has significantly transformed in recent years, becoming progressively complicated, diverse, true-to-life and social in nature (Ferguson & Olson, 2013). Video games offer users with immersive and compelling social, intellectual, and emotional skills. Additionally, these capabilities can have the possibility to develop players mental

In the past, when a child was bored they went outside to play, they created new games, or they played with friends. But, for the past three decades, video games and other digital media have been persuading many adolescents and children to spend the majority of their time playing them. Video games seem to satisfy children’s natural need to interact socially, however more often than not, they lead to social isolation. Overexposure to digital media, such as video games is detrimental to the health and function of a child’s brain in the areas of empathy, impulse control, and social interaction.

A few months ago, my son asked for a tablet which we bought it for his birthday. It was a good idea back then, since he never had one before and it was his birthday. My only thought was to make my son happy in rewards of his good work at school, but later it become a problem. I was scared of seeing my son playing video games! I started noticing that he was acting different. And many times he wanted to be playing these video games while we were eating or visiting relatives. This situation was very uncomfortable for me. After a few months he was spending more time playing the same games over and over. Eventually, it was normal for him to get back from school and go directly to his room to play video games. My son was putting aside the illusion of having a new bike and have gone to the video games.

The purpose of this research is to determine if aggressive behavior amongst the adolescent stem from playing violent video games. In 1976, the first violent video game “Death Race” was released but, never held accountable for wrong doings of the youths of that time era. It has only been in recent years that society blames the violence within these games for the negative behaviors of youths. The graphics within these games have consistently improved over that past few decades and now seem just as realistic as life itself. Although, video games are more realistic than decades before, they are only one minute factor in determining ones behavior. When determining if violent video games is a factor of aggressive behavior , one needs to also needs to take into consideration how long that youth is playing a particular game, is that youth being supervised as he or she is playing that particular game, what type of social setting is involved, and etc. From bullying to high school shootings, violent video games have been held responsible for numerous wrong doings by youths.

Scientific research supports that video games have implications on the youngsters. In addition, they support the claim with concrete findings addressed in the literature review. In their reports, various researchers state that video games affect the social, psychological, and physical well-being of children. This research report supports the scientific view that although video games are beneficial in terms of improving attention, they negatively affect the children’s social being on a deeper context. The methods employed in the collection of data involved administering of closed questionnaires to the parents and teachers in a small neighborhood. The inherent motive was to establish the beliefs of parents and teachers upon the negative effects of the video games. The teachers partially agreed that video games have more detrimental effects to children than benefits.