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By DOUGLAS GENTILE
Friday, February 20, 2004 – Page A19E-mail this Article
Print this ArticleSnipers. Rape. Cars targeting pedestrians. Heads exploding in a shower of gore.
These scenes can all be found in violent video games, and this month the Journal of Adolescence published several studies looking at their effects on youth. I was involved in one study (Gentile, Lynch, Linder, & Walsh, 2004). After looking at more than 600 Grade 8 and Grade 9 students, we found that playing a lot of violent video games was a serious risk factor linked with children’s anti-social and aggressive behaviour — even after controlling for the amount the children play, their gender and whether they have naturally hostile personalities. Surprisingly, even the kids who are not naturally aggressive are almost 10 times more likely, if they play a lot of violent video games, to get into physical fights than kids who do not.
Our study is only one of about 40 peer-reviewed, published studies that demonstrate that playing violent video games increases aggressive feelings and behaviours. These games are not the Pac-Man and Pong of earlier generations; as technology has advanced, violent video games have become extremely graphic (in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, a man encounters a prostitute, has sex and then beats her to death to get his money back).
Although such ultraviolent video games carry an M (mature) rating, a recent study by the American Federal Trade Commission found that children can buy them easily. In a separate study of nearly 800 Grade 4 to Grade 8 kids, 87 per cent of boys reported that they play M-rated games, and one in five admitted that he had bought an M-rated game without parental knowledge.
As the research evidence about the negative effects of violent games become more compelling, parents, educators, and policy-makers are increasingly concerned about what to do. From my perspective, there are three pillars of responsibility: the video-game industry, the rental and retail industry and parents
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(You’re not a kid anymore)When people ask of me
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Now that your not a kid anymore
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Hoping that he will phone
But I know Bobby has someone else
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