Effects of Video Games on Behavior Student Ali

Effects of Video Games on Behavior Student: Ali Alsaif ID: 201600814 Section: 107 Instructor: Dr. Yazan Al Ghazo

Introduction Video games are one of the most popular activities in the modern world. Video Games are important to many people around the world. The purpose of this research is to find the effects that the people contain on their behavior after playing video games.

Rationale People always talk about video games’ negative sides only so there has to be a study that shows the positive sides. I’m interested in video games because it is huge part of my life.

Methodology This study is a researcher developed questionnaire. This study have included 51 participants. The participants were students and workers. The data that has been collected were from a survey that has been created and shared by google forms.

Literature Review Violent video games popularity are increasing these days, especially among our children (Sherry, 2011). Most of the researches only explain the negative results of playing violent video games on the behavior of the person (Baranowski, 2008). If the player creates his/her own game character, the chances of having an aggressive behavior will increase (Greitemeyer, 2010).

Findings The first results showed that violent video games do not lead to aggressive behavior. But there are still some people were affected by video games in general in positive way. 30 25 20 15 10 5 0 Affected by video games Not affected by video games

Findings The second results showed that the people who play violent video games are way more than the people who doesn’t. 45 40 35 30 25 20 15 10 5 0 Violent Game Players Nonviolent Game Players

Findings The third results showed that most of the people do not agree that children can play violent video games. Yes No 45, 10% 54, 90%

Implications This research had to be done, there are some researches that are similar with this one, but the results of this research are very rare to find them in another research, now we know that violent video games do not lead to aggressive behavior.

Conclusion there a lot of articles about video games and its advantages and disadvantages, but this article focuses on the effects of video games on behavior. Also, this article focuses about violent video games and their effects. The results have showed that violent video games do not lead to aggressive behavior at all.