Association of television violence exposure with executive functioning and white matter volume in young adult males

Hummer, Tom A.; Kronenberger, William G.; Wang, Yan; Anderson, Caitlin Caprice; Mathews, Vincent P.

doi:10.1016/j.bandc.2014.04.010

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“…Another ERP study of college students found that amount of violent video game experience was associated with differences in ERP patterns in the processing of positive, negative, violent and neutral images, such that frequent violent gamers (relative to controls) processed images in a way supportive of violence desensitization (Bailey, West, & Anderson, ). Similarly, fMRI studies have found significant correlations between television violence exposure, executive functioning and white matter volume in young adult males (Hummer, Kronenberger, Wang, Anderson, & Mathews, ). Yet other studies have found associations between media violence exposure and executive function deficits in adolescents diagnosed with Disruptive Behavior Disorder and matched controls (Kronenberger et al., ).…”

Section: Media Violence and Aggression: New And Understudied Pathsmentioning

confidence: 91%

Media Violence and the General Aggression Model

Anderson

Bushman

2018

Journal of Social Issues

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The General Aggression Model (GAM) is a meta-theory that considers the role of personal and situational variables on aggressive behavior, ranging from the biological to the cultural. Possible mediating variables include internal states (e.g., aggressive thoughts, angry feelings, increased physiological arousal) and the results of appraisal and decision processes (automatic and controlled). In this article, we focus on one situational variable-exposure to violent media-and how it can influence a wide array of cognitive, developmental, emotional, and social processes that can increase likelihood of aggression. Previous research has shown that exposure to violent media can increase aggression through all three internal state paths, and by increasing hostile appraisals. In this article, we use GAM as a theoretical framework to explain a wide variety of violent media effects. We also add some clarifications and extensions to GAM that research in the past 15 years has shown to be needed in the model. We also suggest new research directions in the media violence domain that we believe will be especially useful in the future."There is nothing so useful as a good theory." -Kurt Lewin (1951) We believe that the General Aggression Model (GAM) is "useful" and is a "good theory" for explaining violent media effects. Our goal in this article is to use GAM to summarize what is currently known about how exposure to media violence influences those who consume it. More specifically, we focus on screen

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Section: Media Violence and Aggression: New And Understudied Pathsmentioning

confidence: 91%

Media Violence and the General Aggression Model

Anderson

Bushman

2018

Journal of Social Issues

141

136

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“…In a prospective study, for example, Kim et al (2013) found an association between childhood exposure to chronic stressors and reduced adult neural activity during effortful attempts to regulate negative emotions. Other evidence comes from the study of media violence consequences, in which the amount of television viewing of violent contents or video game experience has been associated with greater impairment in executive functioning (e.g., Bailey, West, & Andeston, 2010;Hummer, Kronenberger, Wang, Anderson, & Mathews, 2014), even if the direction of this relation during development has not been well established. As Swing and Anderson (2014) pointed out, further research is needed to extend attention to other contexts of violence.…”

Section: The Role Of Effortful Control (Ec)mentioning

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Effortful control, exposure to community violence, and aggressive behavior: Exploring cross‐lagged relations in adolescence

Esposito

Bacchini

Eisenberg

et al. 2017

Aggressive Behavior

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Self-regulation processes and violent contexts play an important role in predicting adolescents' aggressive behavior; less clear is how all three constructs are linked to each other over time. The present study examined the longitudinal relations among adolescents' self-reported effortful control (EC), exposure to community violence, both as a witness and as a victim, and aggressive behavior. Participants were 768 Italian adolescents (358 males) living in a high-risk context, with a mean age at T1 of 11 years in the younger cohort and 14 years in the older cohort. In a four-wave cross-lagged panel design, low EC was a strong predictor of aggressive behavior across each time point, whereas aggressive behavior was found to positively predict adolescents' violence exposure both as witnesses and victims. Some evidence of transactional relations was also found between adjustment problems and exposure to community violence and between EC and externalizing problems. Moreover, EC was indirectly related to exposure to violence through externalizing problems, and mediated the relation of witnessing community violence to aggression, thus supporting the view that top-down regulatory processes play a complex role in the development of violence and other externalizing problems. The importance of considering interventions that take in account these complex relations is discussed.

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“…2 Aşırı ve yanlış elektronik medya kullanımının dikkat, yürütücü işlev-ler, uyku, obezite ve madde kullanımı ile ilişkili olumsuz etkileri literatürde gösterilmiştir. [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15] Çocukluk çağının en sık görülen nörogelişimsel bozukluklarından biri olan dikkat eksikliği hiperaktivite bozukluğu (DEHB) belirtilerinin, yaşamın erken dönemlerinden itibaren TV izlenmesi ile ilişkili olduğu uzunlamasına çalışmalarda göste-rilmiştir. 16,17 Bu çalışmalarda ilişkili etkenler ve olası sonuçları şöyle sıralanmıştır: Elektronik medya kullanımına başlama zamanı; izlenilen/ kullanılan programların içeriği (çocuk programları, erişkin programları vs.); ortam (yalnız başına, yetişkin ile birlikte vs.); elektronik medyanın şiddet içeriği, 18 hızlı görüntü akışı; 19 yoğun kullanım nedeniyle çocuğun sağlıklı bilişsel gelişimi-ne yardımcı olacak aktivitelerin engellenmesi 17 ve çocuğun konuşma/dil becerileri ile ilgili gelişi-minin engellenmesi.…”

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Assessment of electronic media use in children and adolescents with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

Görmez¹,

Örengül²

2017

Anadolu Psikiyatri Derg

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Association of television violence exposure with executive functioning and white matter volume in young adult males

Cited by 16 publications

References 52 publications

Media Violence and the General Aggression Model

Media Violence and the General Aggression Model

Effortful control, exposure to community violence, and aggressive behavior: Exploring cross‐lagged relations in adolescence

Assessment of electronic media use in children and adolescents with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

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