There are mainly two types of aggression in the school: physical aggression and social aggression. Martins and Wilson conducted researches regarding this very topic and present their findings in an article. The article outlines, defines, and determines the correlations between exposure to aggressive television programs and aggressive behavior. The significance of this study influences the way to cultivate our children and diminishes aggression in school by controlling exposure to television programs that are high in aggressive contents.
The article defines social aggression as intentional harm against someone by nonphysical aggression such as verbal and emotional abuse. Traditionally, the target of social abuse suffers from traumatic experiences, …show more content…
49). They used two theories to prove this positive correlation. One is social cognitive theory, which refers to children who tend to imitate behaviors and models that are shown in the media. Thus, when they encounter the similar situations, they would unconsciously express social aggression, in the way the television characters did. Another theory is the information processing theory, analogically, the way our brains work is like the way computers process information. Taking the long-term exposure to media violence as the input information, the brain would encode those input messages into long-term memory, which plays the function of the CPU for a computer. When children encounter the similar social situations, they could automatically retrieve the relevant memory and tend to act …show more content…
For example, the gender difference, one of the moderating variables, plays an important role in the types of aggressive perpetration that kids would choose. According to the research statistics, girls prefer to watch socially aggressive programs, whereas boys tend to watch physically aggressive programs. Also, the later analysis revealed “a disordinal interaction,” between the exposure to programs high in either type of aggression and perpetration of similar aggressive behavior (Martins, Wilson, 2011). Thus, the separation of sex predicts kids’ social aggression greatly. Also, the effects of several control variables, such as race, academic achievement, child alienation and empathy, help explain a significant part of the differences in the children’s social aggression. However, this study has shown the contribution of overall exposure to television was not a significant predictor. Compared to girls, boys’ overall television exposure was more than girls’, but girls tend to be more socially aggressive than boys. Last, but not least, when researchers compared the data of exposure to one type aggression on TV with increased aggression of the other type among children, they did not find explicit connections to support the idea that viewing one form of aggression would lead another form among children, regardless of their sex
The article defines social aggression as intentional harm against someone by nonphysical aggression such as verbal and emotional abuse. Traditionally, the target of social abuse suffers from traumatic experiences, …show more content…
49). They used two theories to prove this positive correlation. One is social cognitive theory, which refers to children who tend to imitate behaviors and models that are shown in the media. Thus, when they encounter the similar situations, they would unconsciously express social aggression, in the way the television characters did. Another theory is the information processing theory, analogically, the way our brains work is like the way computers process information. Taking the long-term exposure to media violence as the input information, the brain would encode those input messages into long-term memory, which plays the function of the CPU for a computer. When children encounter the similar social situations, they could automatically retrieve the relevant memory and tend to act …show more content…
For example, the gender difference, one of the moderating variables, plays an important role in the types of aggressive perpetration that kids would choose. According to the research statistics, girls prefer to watch socially aggressive programs, whereas boys tend to watch physically aggressive programs. Also, the later analysis revealed “a disordinal interaction,” between the exposure to programs high in either type of aggression and perpetration of similar aggressive behavior (Martins, Wilson, 2011). Thus, the separation of sex predicts kids’ social aggression greatly. Also, the effects of several control variables, such as race, academic achievement, child alienation and empathy, help explain a significant part of the differences in the children’s social aggression. However, this study has shown the contribution of overall exposure to television was not a significant predictor. Compared to girls, boys’ overall television exposure was more than girls’, but girls tend to be more socially aggressive than boys. Last, but not least, when researchers compared the data of exposure to one type aggression on TV with increased aggression of the other type among children, they did not find explicit connections to support the idea that viewing one form of aggression would lead another form among children, regardless of their sex