Digital Game effects on Aggression: Exploration of Different approaches and their findings

Digital games are among essential forms of entertainment among different groups, especially young people. Data from Iranian national video council confirms that more than fifty percent of young people play digital games either at home or at game cafes. Despite increasing popularity of digital games...

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Main Author: Meghdad Mehrabi
Format: Article
Language:fas
Published: Allameh Tabataba'i University Press 2018-01-01
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Online Access:https://nms.atu.ac.ir/article_8259_852524402e6ae7850c820a91e833b67c.pdf
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description Digital games are among essential forms of entertainment among different groups, especially young people. Data from Iranian national video council confirms that more than fifty percent of young people play digital games either at home or at game cafes. Despite increasing popularity of digital games among you people, there have been concerns about negative effects of video games on players’ aggressive behavior in real life and their mental inclinations. Theories and findings about video game effects are not consistent and they are at times in clear opposition. In this paper, we review major approaches in video game effects analysis. We found that two essential approaches include social science approach and humanities. Through two research methods including document analysis and meta analysis of the literature we illustrate how and why major game effects approaches are in opposition. We indicate why there are inconsistencies about findings for video game effects. Finally, true answer to the question whether playing video games would result in aggressive behavior in real life is provided.
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spelling doaj.art-4aabb335394f45098b39abb9a154af692023-12-13T10:20:45ZfasAllameh Tabataba'i University Pressمطالعات رسانه‌های نوین2538-22092476-65502018-01-0131211112710.22054/cs.2018.21910.2198259Digital Game effects on Aggression: Exploration of Different approaches and their findingsMeghdad Mehrabi0PHD Nanyang Technological UniversityDigital games are among essential forms of entertainment among different groups, especially young people. Data from Iranian national video council confirms that more than fifty percent of young people play digital games either at home or at game cafes. Despite increasing popularity of digital games among you people, there have been concerns about negative effects of video games on players’ aggressive behavior in real life and their mental inclinations. Theories and findings about video game effects are not consistent and they are at times in clear opposition. In this paper, we review major approaches in video game effects analysis. We found that two essential approaches include social science approach and humanities. Through two research methods including document analysis and meta analysis of the literature we illustrate how and why major game effects approaches are in opposition. We indicate why there are inconsistencies about findings for video game effects. Finally, true answer to the question whether playing video games would result in aggressive behavior in real life is provided.https://nms.atu.ac.ir/article_8259_852524402e6ae7850c820a91e833b67c.pdf"digital games""game effects""humanism approach""social science approach""aggression"
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Digital Game effects on Aggression: Exploration of Different approaches and their findings
مطالعات رسانه‌های نوین
"digital games"
"game effects"
"humanism approach"
"social science approach"
"aggression"
title Digital Game effects on Aggression: Exploration of Different approaches and their findings
title_full Digital Game effects on Aggression: Exploration of Different approaches and their findings
title_fullStr Digital Game effects on Aggression: Exploration of Different approaches and their findings
title_full_unstemmed Digital Game effects on Aggression: Exploration of Different approaches and their findings
title_short Digital Game effects on Aggression: Exploration of Different approaches and their findings
title_sort digital game effects on aggression exploration of different approaches and their findings
topic "digital games"
"game effects"
"humanism approach"
"social science approach"
"aggression"
url https://nms.atu.ac.ir/article_8259_852524402e6ae7850c820a91e833b67c.pdf
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