Gamers spend so much of their time playing that their personal relationship gets neglected and sometimes disappear altogether. They won't, or can't, engage in the real world conversations or be the source of encouragement or support to family and friends. Because their friends talk about other things, they start to feel left out, which causes them to feel offended or irritated. It did not occur to them that they chose to be left out by devoting all of their time to gaming. Griffiths (2010) who claimed that students who were dependent were more likely to favor video games over friend.
Consequently, many underage video game players who have not enough self-discipline will have an addiction to playing video games. Once underage children have a video game addiction, playing video games will replace their self-study time and result in poor school performance (S.R. Burgess, M.C.R. Burgess, & Stermer, 2012). Even more, video game addiction badly affects underage children’s lifestyle, the worst, put their life at risk.
Effect of violent video games on Children’s behavior For a long time, research on the effect of violent video games on people especially children have been sparse and weak. However, the current research findings have shown a clear connection between children’s exposure to violence in video games and anti-social behaviors such as extreme aggressiveness in real life (Anderson& Gentile, 2006). Those children exposed to more violent video games have
Based on the results of this study, many teenagers are addicted to computer games, the time that they should be spend to their studies and families decreases due to their addiction to MOBA Games. Addiction to computer games can lead to mental
Some of these kids who are addicted to video games aren 't to blame, most or even all of the blame should be going to the irresponsible parents who are letting these children play games for hours to give the parents some peace and quiet. I’ve seen this over and over again when parents give their one to three year old child an Ipad or their phone to keep them quiet so they don’t have to deal with the child’s issue. These parents today seem to becoming lazier and allowing their kid to do this all throughout the child 's life and ruins their adult life. This brings
parents should know what these things can cause an addiction to video games to protect their teenagers from that risk. these causes may look like nothing but they are leading to serious addiction to video games. one of the causes that help American children to be addicted to video games is having no friends or social relations. American teenagers who don’t have friends or relations prefer to do enjoyable things to have fun and one of these enjoyable things is video games. having friends or social relations can reduce the number of spent hours in playing video games.
Continued exposure to killing or maiming living targets creates insensitivity towards pain and violence, leading to aggression and violence in teens in their daily lives. Humans learn using the common psychology behavior of imprinting. They see and they do. Violent video games teach kids that antagonistic behavior is an acceptable way of dealing with problems and teach them to imitate the cruel actions they see
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.
Sometimes parents do not pay attention to their children. They spend so many hours at work and sometimes they hire a person to take care of their children; parents can be so irresponsible sometimes because even when they spend a lot of time working when they come home they can speak with their children and ask them about their day or something like that; the effects of this horrible addiction is that children can be very aggressive at home or at school. Most of the problems that children have in their school are related to the violence in the video games. This is a serious problem nowadays; in some cases they fight in the school or they can decline in school achievements. Dr. Phil says that parents have to care about the rating of the video games so that children will not have a change of mood because they are going to be playing video games proper of their
Are violent video games responsible for real-life violence? Are children who have grown up playing graphic games more aggressive than their peers? Did violent video games inspire mass killings, usually done by young adults, such as the Newtown massacre? Scientists and psychologists have been studying violent video games and their connection to aggression and violence in the real world for decades. These questions have recently resurfaced after Vice President Joe Biden stated that research should be conducted on violence and violent video games after the recent controversial debate over gun control.