Over the recent months, there has been much discussion in the media about what type of negative impact video games have on young gamers, but the average gamer has voiced their opinion too. It can be generally stated that they we believe: “If a game can do that to you, there was something wrong with you before you started playing.” And now, we can back it up. Here it is, the study you’ve all been waiting for. Go shove it in your most hated politician’s face.
A study published in Psychology, Crime & Law claims that stable personalities are unaffected by violent video games. Researchers had 110 boys and 15 girls, with a mean age of 14.6, play Quake II for 20 minutes once researchers had a personality profile of each participant. Anger levels were measured again immediately after the gaming test session ended. Researchers discovered three distinct groups once analyzing the data: 77 maintained the same anger level, 22 had anger levels that doubled, 8 started out a higher level of anger before the test started but dropped down to normal levels. There are two groups that gamers from the studied fell into. The first group is calm at the beginning and becomes agitated after the game and the other group is composed of angry gamers who cool off after game play. The authors of the report say they understand that any correlation between aggression and anger remains very unclear to researchers, and the next step is to run the tests over with different subjects and different video games.
News source: DailyTech
A study published in Psychology, Crime & Law claims that stable personalities are unaffected by violent video games. Researchers had 110 boys and 15 girls, with a mean age of 14.6, play Quake II for 20 minutes once researchers had a personality profile of each participant. Anger levels were measured again immediately after the gaming test session ended. Researchers discovered three distinct groups once analyzing the data: 77 maintained the same anger level, 22 had anger levels that doubled, 8 started out a higher level of anger before the test started but dropped down to normal levels. There are two groups that gamers from the studied fell into. The first group is calm at the beginning and becomes agitated after the game and the other group is composed of angry gamers who cool off after game play. The authors of the report say they understand that any correlation between aggression and anger remains very unclear to researchers, and the next step is to run the tests over with different subjects and different video games.
News source: DailyTech
Now the problem is every parent believes their child is stable.
indeed, that is the major problem. most parents think their kids would never do horrible things, because if they admit it then they'd have to admit that they were horrible parents
90%? way to pull a number out of your ass. when talking about "today's youngsters" it's not even close to that. what your doing is the same as the politicians
Having an unstable child may not always be a "bad parenting" factor. There are other factors outside the home that can affect children and the way they think. (e.g. school)
Don't like your percentage given there, but you're right. However, you can't protect your children from learning about the every day violence, death, and other horrible things that go wrong in our society.
This must be your first time using the internet, correct? Seriously though, don't get all worked up over nothing.
When a video game becomes your child's rolemodel, you are a bad parent.
-_- what a great way to spend money on this study...
Then I get a soda (caffeine) and ride their ass for the rest of the map.
It takes empirical data and scientific research to back a theory no matter how obvious that theory may be. It's about time we finally have some solid backing for this one.
-Spenser
Couldn't they choose something that wasn't released last millenium?
n00bs - they whine all the time and get angry
pr0s - they enjoy killing n00bs
Nice try but you failed.
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