Journal article
Screen Violence and Youth Behavior
Pediatrics (Evanston), Vol.140(Suppl 2), pp.S142-S147
11/2017
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2016-1758T
PMID: 29093050
Abstract
Violence in screen entertainment media (ie, television, film, video games, and the Internet), defined as depictions of characters (or players) trying to physically harm other characters (or players), is ubiquitous. The Workgroup on Media Violence and Violent Video Games reviewed numerous meta-analyses and other relevant research from the past 60 years, with an emphasis on violent video game research. Consistent with every major science organization review, the Workgroup found compelling evidence of short-term harmful effects, as well as evidence of long-term harmful effects. The vast majority of laboratory-based experimental studies have revealed that violent media exposure causes increased aggressive thoughts, angry feelings, physiologic arousal, hostile appraisals, aggressive behavior, and desensitization to violence and decreases prosocial behavior (eg, helping others) and empathy. Still, to more fully understand the potential for long-term harm from media violence exposure, the field is greatly in need of additional large-sample, high-quality, longitudinal studies that include validated measures of media violence exposure and measures of other known violence risk factors. Also, although several high-quality media violence intervention studies have been conducted, larger-scale studies with more comprehensive and longer-term assessments are needed to fully understand long-term effects and to inform the development of tools that will help to reduce problems associated with aggression and violence. The evidence that violent screen media constitutes a causal risk factor for increased aggression is compelling. Modern social-cognitive theories of social behavior provide useful frameworks for understanding how and why these effects occur.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Screen Violence and Youth Behavior
- Creators
- Craig A Anderson - Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa; caa@iastate.eduBrad J Bushman - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The NetherlandsBruce D Bartholow - University of Missouri, Columbia, MissouriJoanne Cantor - University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WisconsinDimitri Christakis - Seattle Children's Hospital Research Institute, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WashingtonSarah M Coyne - Brigham Young University, Provo, UtahEdward Donnerstein - University of Arizona, Tucson, ArizonaJeanne Funk Brockmyer - University of Toledo, Toledo, OhioDouglas A Gentile - Iowa State University, Ames, IowaC Shawn Green - University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WisconsinRowell Huesmann - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MichiganTom Hummer - Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IndianaBarbara Krahé - University of Potsdam, Potsdam, GermanyVictor C Strasburger - University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, New MexicoWayne Warburton - Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, AustraliaBarbara J Wilson - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois; andMichele Ybarra - Center for Innovative Public Health Research, San Clemente, California
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Pediatrics (Evanston), Vol.140(Suppl 2), pp.S142-S147
- DOI
- 10.1542/peds.2016-1758T
- PMID
- 29093050
- NLM abbreviation
- Pediatrics
- ISSN
- 0031-4005
- eISSN
- 1098-4275
- Publisher
- American Academy of Pediatrics
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 11/2017
- Academic Unit
- President; Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute; Communication Studies
- Record Identifier
- 9984105916702771
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