THE EFFECTS OF VIOLENT VIDEO GAMES ON YOUTH BEHAVIOR

Abstract

The primary purpose is to identify the behavioral efects of youth playing violent video games on various devices. Research in violent video games is still being debated. Although past researchers have examined the positive and negative efects of violent video games, the results have yet to identify whether the efects of playing violent video games can cause a person’s behavior to change. Moreover, to determine whether exposure to spending a lot of time playing characters in video games caused them to be easily infuenced. In addition, this study also looked at the efects of exposure to video games able to infuence players in behavior. Past researchers were more focused on which gender spent more time playing violent video games. The efort of this study is to identify whether playing violent video games can have a behavioral efect on youth. Thus, the Media Dependency Theory was applied to achieve the objective of the study.