Violent Video Games Impact

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Impacts of Violent Video Games

Nowadays, many cases related to violence happens in Indonesia. Violence cases does not only happen around adults but also happens around teenagers and children. Video games become one of the factors that causes the violence around teenagers and children. A study published in Psychological Science March 2010 showed that intense consumption of multimedia games will worsen the child 's ability to read and write. Exposure to video games make kids focus split because they are busy thinking of ways to improve their game scores. As quoted from Shine, research was conducted on a number of boys focusing on the age of 6-9 years. They played video games for four full months without interruption from other games. Children …show more content…

On the other hand, some parents think that video games is just an entertainment for their children, weekend usually become the time for children to play video games as relaxation from their activity in school so the parents give them permission to play video games then children have easy access to play video games. In fact, based on Buchman and Funk research said that almost all popular video games are violent (Buchman and Funk as cited in Dill, 1996). Even though they know that most of video games are violent, they keep on playing and become addicted with violent video games. What will happen if the teenagers and children play violent video games and become addicted to it? There are three impacts that are caused by violent video game such as criminality, aggressiveness, and arousal.
Criminality is one of the impact of violent video games. There is a survey that states the behaviors that are usually associated with video game players, the survey said that there are around 13% of teenagers and children that have sacrificed other activities and spent their time to play video games. Besides, teenagers and children who play the video game usually use their money to play the game while actually the money is supposed to be used to buy other things, Egli and Myers journal (as cited in Dill, 1984). …show more content…

As what have been stated above, there are three impacts that are caused by violent video game such as criminality, aggressiveness, and arousal. Addicted to video games especially violent video games will lead to crime. In Indonesia there are many places provided a rent service for playing video games while teenagers and children need money to have that access, they will used their money and spent their time to playing video game but they become addicted and need longer time to playing games. They will do everything to fulfill their wants such as stealing money from their parent or another person. Playing violent video games can increase their aggressiveness. Both teenagers and children brain will be stimulated with violent video games because of when they playing video games they will fully concentrated in the game. This aggressiveness also affecting in arousal feeling. When they lose or defeat in the game they will getting frustrated and feeling angry. This anger feeling can lead them to do other violence such as, verbal violence and physical violence. However, this does not mean that most teenagers or children who play violent video games will later become violent. It does mean that their risk is elevated. If there are additional risk factors, the risk is further elevated. With enough risk factors, it becomes extremely likely that an individual will behave with

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