Preference for Violent Electronic Games and Aggressive Behavior among Children: The Beginning of the Downward Spiral?

Salisch, Maria von; Vogelgesang, Jens; Kristen, Astrid; Oppl, Caroline

doi:10.1080/15213269.2011.596468

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“…However, the associations between time spent gaming and negative outcomes were negligible. These findings are not in line with some previous studies (Anand, 2007; Gentile et al, 2004; Holtz & Appel, 2011; Lemona et al, 2011; Ream et al, 2011), but our findings support research that favours the growing notion that strong engagement with video games is not necessarily associated negative outcomes, and that researchers need to differentiate between strong engagement with games and video game addiction (Brunborg et al, 2013; Charlton & Danforth, 2007; Desai et al, 2010; Ferguson et al, 2011, 2012; Rehbein et al, 2010; Skoric et al, 2009; von Salisch et al, 2011). …”

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“…However, studies have also found that time spent on video games is not related to negative outcomes (e.g. Desai, Krishnan-Sarin, Cavallo & Potenza, 2010; Ferguson, 2011; Ferguson, San Miguel, Garza & Jerabeck, 2012; von Salisch, Vogelgesang, Kristen & Oppl, 2011). This suggests that amount of gaming in itself is not necessarily associated with detrimental effects.…”

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Is video gaming, or video game addiction, associated with depression, academic achievement, heavy episodic drinking, or conduct problems?

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Frøyland³

2014

Journal of Behavioral Addictions

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Background and aims: While the relationships between video game use and negative consequences are debated, the relationships between video game addiction and negative consequences are fairly well established. However, previous studies suffer from methodological weaknesses that may have caused biased results. There is need for further investigation that benefits from the use of methods that avoid omitted variable bias. Methods: Two wave panel data was used from two surveys of 1,928 Norwegian adolescents aged 13 to 17 years. The surveys included measures of video game use, video game addiction, depression, heavy episodic drinking, academic achievement, and conduct problems. The data was analyzed using first-differencing, a regression method that is unbiased by time invariant individual factors. Results: Video game addiction was related to depression, lower academic achievement, and conduct problems, but time spent on video games was not related to any of the studied negative outcomes. Discussion: The findings were in line with a growing number of studies that have failed to find relationships between time spent on video games and negative outcomes. The current study is also consistent with previous studies in that video game addiction was related to other negative outcomes, but it made the added contribution that the relationships are unbiased by time invariant individual effects. However, future research should aim at establishing the temporal order of the supposed causal effects. Conclusions: Spending time playing video games does not involve negative consequences, but adolescents who experience problems related to video games are likely to also experience problems in other facets of life.

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Is video gaming, or video game addiction, associated with depression, academic achievement, heavy episodic drinking, or conduct problems?

Brunborg¹,

Mentzoni²,

Frøyland³

2014

Journal of Behavioral Addictions

302

224

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“…A two-wave study of violent video game use and aggressive behavior among elementary school children in Germany (von Salisch, Vogelgesang, Kristen, & Oppl, 2011) using cross-lagged structural equation models found that children's aggressiveness predicted subsequent violent media use but the reverse was not true. The authors attributed the lack of effect of video game exposure on the high stability of aggressive behavior and the relative constraints on such behavior among these younger children, when disposition and family environment heavily determine such behaviors.…”

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Reinforcing Spirals Model: Conceptualizing the Relationship Between Media Content Exposure and the Development and Maintenance of Attitudes

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The Reinforcing Spirals Model (RSM, Citation Withheld) has two primary purposes. First, the RSM provides a general framework for conceptualizing media use as part of a dynamic, endogenous process combining selective exposure and media effects that may be drawn on by theorists concerned with a variety of social processes and effects. Second, the RSM utilizes a systems-theory perspective to describe how patterns of mediated and interpersonal communication contribute to the development and maintenance of social identities and ideology as well as more transient attitudes and related behaviors, and how those outcomes may influence subsequent media use. The RSM suggests contingencies that may lead to homeostasis or encourage certain individuals or groups to extreme polarization of such attitudes. In addition, the RSM proposes social cognitive mechanisms that may be responsible for attitude maintenance and reinforcement. This article discusses empirical progress in testing the model, addresses misconceptions that have arisen, and provides elaborated illustrations of the model. The article also identifies potentially fruitful directions for further conceptual development and empirical testing of the RSM.

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“…Hopf, Huber, & Weiß, 2008;Möller & Krahé, 2009) or no predictive relationship at all (e.g. Ferguson, San Miguel, Garza, & Jerabeck, 2012;von Salisch, Vogelgesang, Kristen, & Oppl, 2011) or potentially an inverse relationship (Shibuya, Sakamoto, Ihori, & Yukawa, 2008). These studies have varied in the sophistication of the use of control variables, the quality of aggression measures, and the degree to which issues such as single responder bias (Baumrind, Larzelere, & Cowan, 2002) may have influence results.…”

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Preference for Violent Electronic Games and Aggressive Behavior among Children: The Beginning of the Downward Spiral?

Cited by 71 publications

References 43 publications

Is video gaming, or video game addiction, associated with depression, academic achievement, heavy episodic drinking, or conduct problems?

Is video gaming, or video game addiction, associated with depression, academic achievement, heavy episodic drinking, or conduct problems?

Reinforcing Spirals Model: Conceptualizing the Relationship Between Media Content Exposure and the Development and Maintenance of Attitudes

Digital poison? Three studies examining the influence of violent video games on youth

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