Televised Violence causes Aggression in Young Boys

Televised Violence causes Aggression in Young Boys

Young boys are evidently influenced by things in their environment such as media, peers, and family. Elementary school aged boys are influenced easily because these are critical years in developing their sense of individuality and social skills with their peers. The vulnerably of young boys are a reason why they are a target of the popular culture of displaying television violence because they have rarely encountered it in previous years so they find that fighting is intriguing from the action to the cartoon characters in the shows. The children television networks have a choice on what they air, so instead of making a children’s network, like cartoon network, age appropriate shows without violence, they display the fighting and weapons making the child believe that these actions are acceptable. The popular culture of televised violence associated with television shows like Batman encourages aggressive behavior in elementary school aged boys because of the violent imagery depicted in fighting and weapons scene.

The numerous displays of televised violence affects elementary school aged boys. Violence is more common now days within the society and media. From the American Academy of Pediatrics scholarly journal reported that “The Kaiser Family Foundation preformed a survey in 2010 of more than 2000 8- to 18-year-olds, which revealed that children and teenagers in the United States spend an average of more than 7 hours a day with a variety of different media” (Strasburger, 2010). Most of these hours consist of watch TV in young boys, which contain violence. University of Michigan Health System conducted a study on how televised violence contributes to the aggression in child...

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