Media Violence and Quality of Life among Young Children and Youth in Sialkot, Pakistan

Abbas, Salbia; Jami, Rabia; Iddress, Laiba; Abbas, Saira; Bibi, Khuzaifa

doi:10.14421/al-athfal.2021.72-07

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“…In this regard, the youth develops aggressive behavior in them by watching violent content on social media (also see Cotteerell, 2013;Keles et al, 2020;Losel & Farrington, 2012). Studies from the Pakistani context also validated that new media social networking sites connected the youth but simultaneously cause various social and psychological problems along with the development of anti-social and violent conduct (Abbas et al, 2021;Zaheer, 2018).…”

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The Role of Social Media in Proliferating Violent Behavior Among College Students in District Layyah, Pakistan

Fatima¹,

Sattar²,

Imdadullah³

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The usage of social media is the biggest catalyst that causes behavioral transitions among the younger age cohort. In the recent era of digitalization, the youth especially college students are addicted to various social media apps such as Facebook, Tik Tok, Twitter, Whats app, and Youtube. This younger age bracket used digital media to watch violent-based entertainment content, pornographies, and video games. Aligning this,cross-sectional survey research design was conducted in the four registered colleges of Layyah, Pakistan. A total sample size of N=263 respondents was selected through a de-facto method. Questionnaire was used as a tool for the data collection process. The responses of the participants were gathered and analyzed through SPSS Version-21. The findings of the study revealed that the younger students above the age of 18 years i.e. n=157 (59.7%), who belonged to the nuclear family system(n=123, 46.8%), had low parental education (n=53, 20.2%), and had a family income of ?30,000PKR (n=96, 36.5%) were more involved in the usage of social media apps which proliferates their violent behavioral conduct. Moreover, playing violent video games (n=210, 79.8%), watching action-based movies (n=217, 82.5%), destruction of someone's possessions (n=164, 62.4%), and watchinga person shooting (n=177, 67.3%) were the major parameters that played an imperative role in amplifying the violent behavior among college students. In conclusion, to share carrier goals, information, innovations, and methods of expression, students used social media sites for various action-based audio-visual content. The vigilance provided by the parents along with college administration and teachers can help to mitigate the role of social media in proliferating violence among youth in the study context.

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“…Youth is influenced by extremist and marginalized hate-based speeches from religious scholars. Contextualizing this, they upload this radical religious content on their social media accounts which also manipulate their ideologies and behavior patterns towards violence (Abbas et al, 2021;Malik, et al, 2022;Tahir et al, 2022).…”

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