Impact of violence video games

on children
Salsabila Luqyana
1710422023
Introduction
 Do you like to play video games?
....or do your young sister or brother like to play video games
If she/he likes to play video
games, what kind of video
games does she/he prefer ?
Suprising facts
Positive effect : white dots

Negative effect : black area

 Main Points
• Video games makes children aggressive
• Video games lead children to bad behavior
• Video games influence the brain working
 Video games makes children
aggressive
• 3.034 children followed for 2 years
• Ages 8-17 : 73% male
• Self-reported games use and behavior
• Study subjects were from singapore
Play Agressive
attitudes

Thinking on
aggressive
ways
• “People who have no control over outcome
game will lead into aggression”
(Richard Ryian, Motivational Psychologist)

• “Games linked to aggression if players can’t

master technology”
(Research from Oxford University)
 Video games lead children to bad
behavior
Children under six cant distinguish fantasy from reality

• The American Academy of

Pediatrics recommended
that all children under six
should be shielded from on-
screen violence.

Viewing violence can

Why ? lead to angry feelings,
nightmares, and
anxiety
 Video games iInfluence the brain
working
• Video games player have a less robus striatum
nucleus

• Action video games player are under-

developing their striatum may even
develop a neurological disorder
 Research 1

• Showed significantly less

activity during the
Video games emotional task in the left
player inferior frontal lobe
The children are
divided into 2 • Less activity in the
groups anterior cingulated cortex

Non-video
games player
Research 2
.
 Research 3

• Researchers found that those who played the

violent video games showed less activity in
areas that involved emotions, attention and
inhibition of our impulses
 What parents can do?
• Talk to them
• Give them advice to change the video games
with the save-ones
• Ask them to spend their time by reading a
book or playing with their friends
• You should company them when they playing
video games.