Influence of Violent Videogames on Aggressiveness: The Role of Gamedisign Ingredients

Student: Amirkhanyan Mariya

Educational Programme: Psychology (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2018

Nowadays, all kinds of video games are becoming more and more popular on different types of platforms. Anyone can play a video game via phone, computer, special consoles, arcades and handhelds. Because of the growing popularity, video games started to be of scientific interest. Due to the popularity of violent video games, scientists started to study violence and aggression within the violent video games, and different studies show different results about these phenomena while studing R rated videogames. To explore this problem, questionnaires are used in this research to measure the level of aggression (State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory, ad hoc scales, Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ), Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire). Also there will be offered the model of “true” violent videogame.

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