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Direct linkAlamri, Manal – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This study is investigating the relationships between playing video games and aggressive behaviors, thoughts, and feelings. The participants are Male and female Saudi college students at Taibah University. The study conducted for two main purposes. Examining correlations between the amount of violence in video games played and aggressive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Video Games, Aggression
Burgess, Stephen R.; Stermer, Steven Paul; Burgess, Melinda C. R. – College Student Journal, 2012
The relations between media consumption, especially TV viewing, and school performance have been extensively examined. However, even though video game playing may have replaced TV viewing as the most frequent form of media usage, relatively little research has examined its relations to school performance, especially in older students. We surveyed…
Descriptors: Homework, Mass Media Effects, Television, College Students
Brenick, Alaina; Henning, Alexandra; Killen, Melanie; O'Connor, Alexander; Collins, Michael – Youth & Society, 2007
The aim of this study is to assess late adolescents' evaluations of and reasoning about gender stereotypes in video games. Female (n = 46) and male (n = 41) students, predominantly European American, with a mean age 19 years, are interviewed about their knowledge of game usage, awareness and evaluation of stereotypes, beliefs about the influences…
Descriptors: Sex Stereotypes, Gender Differences, Video Games, Whites
Ballard, Mary E.; Wiest, J. Rose – 1995
A study examined differences in cardiovascular (CV) reactions and hostility following non-violent play and violent video game play. Subjects were 30 male college undergraduate students. Only male subjects were used because most video games are male oriented, males frequent videogame arcades more often than females, and the gender gap in video game…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Heart Rate, Hostility
Peer reviewedCalvert, Sandra L.; Tan, Siu-Lan – Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 1994
Compared to college students who only watched a violent virtual reality game, those who played the game exhibited a higher heart rate after the game, reported more dizziness and nausea during the game, and exhibited more aggressive thoughts on a posttest questionnaire. Results suggest support for arousal and cognitive, but not psychoanalytic,…
Descriptors: Aggression, Arousal Patterns, College Students, Comparative Analysis
Peer reviewedAnderson, Craig A.; Morrow, Melissa – Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 1995
Extended and tested Deutsch's theory of competition effects. Predicted that people view competitive situations as inherently more aggressive than cooperative ones. Predicted that leading people to think of an aggressive situation in competitive terms would increase aggressive behavior. Increase of kill ratio occurred in absence of changes in…
Descriptors: Aggression, Behavior, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures
