Children And Adolescent Aggression Case Study

Introduction

Children and adolescent aggression has become a very important issue in today’s society. Constantly, there is always hearing of aggression and tragic outcomes o f student violence in the news and read about disturbing acts of violence between children both at home and in schools. Most often, the children and adolescents seem to be desensitized to the hurt they may cause others and put up a very defensive guard, as if they are scared to be harmed themselves. With all this issues at hand, one often wondered where children and adolescents develop such behaviors and attitudes and why they seem to resort to aggressive violence as a first resort to resolving conflicts. Although it is well documented and known that much of these problem

Numerous studies conducted in this regards have shown that a direct relationship between video games and violent behavior in childhood and adolescence. Video games developed earlier in the years like “Packman, Tetris, just to mention a few were without violence but in recent times, video games are becoming more lifelike and violent in nature. Researchers in this field are finding that children are spending more time playing video games than watching television (Wagner, 2004). This is gradually becoming a big problem because in video games, the gamer is an active participant, sitting in front of the screen and watching and playing something real.

Study carried out by Anderson and Bushman (2001) shows that, children between the ages of 8 and 18 spend more than 40 hours per week using some type of media, such as computers, video game systems, and television. This is not including school or homework assignments (Anderson and Bushman, 2001). Seventy-three percent of fourth grade boys and 59% of fourth grade girls report that their favorite games are violent (Anderson and Bushman, 2001). All of the above information came out with a positive relationship between violent video games and increased