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Arch Nemesis: The Video Game
Are video games affecting our kids negatively?
If any of you have children ranging from the age of 5 and up, you probably have started to experience what it feels like to watch your child change personalities in appoximately 2 minutes. On one hand you have your child occupied with something longer that 5 minutes and maybe you might actually get something done without an interruption but then on the other hand you have something that will completely changed your everyday child into a zombie like creature. Is it just your child or can these games change the way a child acts?
Research has proven that an increase in heart rate and blood pressure occur while a person plays video games. Additionally, prefrontal lobe activity is lowered during game play. These increases could well be the cause for the shifts in attitude. The cause for the hostile behavior and emotionality can easily be explained by these physical changes.
The research on the degree of the impact on the player after they stop playing is still in its early stages. Further analysis is still needed. There are a lot of new brain studies being conducted in this niche of psychology. If you are interested in more, consider reading the article that discusses the effects of video games on the brain – and how men are more likely to get addicted to playing than women. There has been other research showing that video games affect brains and activate the parts of the brain that control emotional arousal and inhibition.
So I am wondering, can my children just play a short amount of time and not impact their behavior as strongly?
If you are debating the same question then check out this article that debates how long should children play video games. It states that most youth exceed the American Medical Association recommendation of one to two hours of total screen time per day, which includes gaming, TV viewing or web surfing.
What indicates a problem has more to do with how they use video games -if they think about gaming instead of other things, or use games to manage their emotions.
Parents should be especially alarmed if their child plays for long, uninterrupted stretches and finds it difficult to cut down or stop.
This definitely makes me more aware of the time frame. What are your thoughts?
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