Almost every kid is fond of playing video games either online (Web-based) or offline (at computer/game console). Most of the parents are worried whether these video games are safe for their kids or not. The recent studies showed that violent video games are responsible to increase anger, aggression, addiction, depression, and ferocity in the gamers of all age including kids.
Most of the games like Doom, Marvel Vs. Capcom, Mortal Combat, and Wolfenstien 3D are found culprits to cause violent behaviors in young adults. Calvert, Sandra L., & bingoTan, Siu-Lan conducted a research on impact of virtual violent games in 1994 and found that college students (violent virtual game players) reported more heart rate, increasing aggressiveness in their thoughts, more dizziness and nausea than non-violent game players.
Irwin, A. Roland, & Gross, Alan M. conducted a research in 1995 on kids studying in second grade. They allowed them to play both violent and non-violent games. As per their research,bingo violent game player kids displayed more physical and verbal aggression to their classmate than non-violent game players. However, the violent game player kids dropped their aggression after game play session.
In April 1997, Kirish, Steven J. conducted a research titled “Seeing the world through ‘Mortal Kombat’ colored glasses” on students of third and fourth classes. They found that ‘Mortal Kombat’ game player kids provided negative answers of three out of six questions asked on violent actions of game characters, whereas non-game players responded positively as per expectation.
Above three studies highlighted that violent games have negative effect on kids. Therefore, we advise you to restrain your kids from playing violent games. If your children can access computer there selves then create separate user accounts for them with limited rouletterights and parental control. You should manually restrict the violent gaming Websites in the browser and install or enable access only to non-violent games. It would be better to engage yourself with your kids while playing virtual games either on computer or on gaming consoles. If you do not have sufficient time then stay nearby when your children are playing games and monitor on them
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