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"We Don't Need No Education": Video Game Preferences, Video Game Motivations, and Aggressiveness among Adolescent Boys of Different Educational Ability Levels
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Bijvank, Marije Nije; Konijn, Elly A.; Bushman, Brad J. – Journal of Adolescence, 2012
This research focuses on low educational ability as a risk factor for aggression and violent game play. We propose that boys of lower educational ability are more attracted to violent video games than other boys are, and that they are also higher in trait aggressiveness and sensation seeking. Participants were Dutch boys in public schools (N =…
Descriptors: Video Games, Standardized Tests, At Risk Persons, Ability Grouping
I Wish I Were a Warrior: The Role of Wishful Identification in the Effects of Violent Video Games on Aggression in Adolescent Boys
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Konijn, Elly A.; Bijvank, Marije Nije; Bushman, Brad J. – Developmental Psychology, 2007
This study tested the hypothesis that violent video games are especially likely to increase aggression when players identify with violent game characters. Dutch adolescent boys with low education ability (N=112) were randomly assigned to play a realistic or fantasy violent or nonviolent video game. Next, they competed with an ostensible partner on…
Descriptors: Reaction Time, Males, Fantasy, Video Games