In the articles title ‘The influence of violent media on children and adolescents: A public-health Approach’ by Anjana Madan, Sylvie Mrug, and Rex A. Wright and ‘The Impact of Electronic Media Violence: Scientific Theory and Research’ by L. Rowell Huesmann, violent media have far reaching negative impacts on the psychological development of both male and female children. The media triggers the behaviors in both genders regardless of the intelligence quotient, socioeconomic status aggressive behavior of parents and parental viewing behavior. There are two categories of the impacts of the media; the short-term impacts and the long-term impacts.
Regarding short term impacts, the most common ones among both genders are mimicry, arousal and priming. Aggression or antisocial behavior is likely to happen when media violence primes concepts of aggression. When a child is exposed to media violence that stimulates arousal repeatedly, he or she may reach a peak, which cannot inhibit responses that are inappropriate (Rowell, 2007). Therefore, dominant responses the child learns take charge of social problems like aggression. Finally, when a child observes a specific social behavior in movies or television, they are likely to behave in the same way. Therefore, exposure of a child to content of violence may result into a child mimicking those undesirable behaviors. Long terms impacts include desensitization, enactive learning, and observational learning. The impacts sometimes may be irreversible when a child is repeatedly exposed to them through adolescence stage to adulthood; hence parents should control the kind of media content they expose their children to,
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References
Anjana, M, Sylvie M, & Rex, A. (2005). The influence of violent media on children and adolescents: A public-health Approach.
Rowell, H. (2007). The Impact of Electronic Media Violence: Scientific Theory and Research.
