The effects of violent video games on children

The effects of violent video games on children

Part I: Comprehension

Child psychology and its development are two important aspects that not only require the changes and the challenges that are being felt and experienced through the circle of healthcare and psychology, but that it has been able to highlight and identify multiple factors accounting for hindering the development of children and their resulting behavior.

The article chosen for discussion and analysis is entitled 'The Effect of Violent and Non-Violent Computer Games on Changes in Salivary Cortisol Concentration in Male Adolescents'. This piece of scientific research has been promoted by Fatemeh Hossini, Reza Rezaeeshrazi, Mir Hamid Salehian and Amir Dana, that unanimously promoted and promulgated the results and outcomes of child psychology and the external forces that mold its development.

With the degree of which children and adolescents are in the midst of developing their personalities, the article has been positioned to highlight and the explore the exposure to recreational gadgets and the supposed impact upon the development of personality among adolescents belonging to the age bracket 17-19 years, which not only calls for yielding the necessary results in terms of providing concrete results in the degree of cortisol in male participants and the outcomes thereof (Hossini, Rezaeeshrazi Salehian & Dana, 2011).

For the method, the study has been positioned to be as a field-survey study, targeting the population of adolescents belonging to high-school in Gorghan City, Iran. Test and procedures employed in the study - saliva sampling method and the hormone measurement - have also been employed apart from the statistical tools and tests, which include independent T-test, Turkey's post hoc test and a 2x4 analysis of variance.

The results however provide futile since the outcomes anticipated however did not yield the anticipated results and lacked a better ...