Computer games and the aggressiveness, aggression/aggressive behaviour of children and adolescents. A contribution to the psychopedagogical analysis of the problem

• Authors: Małysz, Zbigniew

Abstracts

EN

The article deals with the problem of (theoretical) dependencies between playing (aggressive) computer games and aggressiveness, aggression/aggressive behaviours of children and adolescents in the context of Albert Bandura's social learning theory and their empirical description based on a meta-analysis/analysis of existing (selected) research data of the topical problem (due to the available sources and the accepted logic of analysis this text is a contribution to the psychopedagogical analysis of the problem). The author starts from a brief discussion of the essence of the theory of social learning of Albert Bandura, then the problem of the role of ludic activity and computer games in the life of (contemporary) man is raised. Next, the problem of dependencies between computer games and aggressiveness, aggression/aggressive behaviours is outlined, and original theoretical models of dependencies between playing the (aggressive) computer games and other aggressive situations and aggressive behaviours are presented. At the end, meta-analysis/analysis of the existing data on the status of the (selected) research of the problem is presented and based on it the relevant final conclusions are drawn as a summary.

Keywords

EN

computer games; aggressiveness; aggression; aggressive behavior; theory of social learning; children; youth; meta-analysis/data analysis; author's review (of the problem's literature); contribution to the psychopedagogical analysis

• Publisher: Akademia Pedagogiki Specjalnej im. Marii Grzegorzewskiej. Wydawnictwo APS
• Journal: Problemy Opiekuńczo-Wychowawcze
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 579(4)
• Pages: 39-51

Dates

published

2019-07-11

Contributors

author

Małysz, Zbigniew

Identifiers

DOI

10.5604/01.3001.0013.2841