Further Support

In a study done by Whitney Decamp, she discovered that the effects of violence in video games on children is moderate when viewed with video games being the only factor in aggression, or violence.  When other risk factors are taken into consideration, the effects of the violent video games decrease greatly.  The data came from a census taken in 2008 of eighth grade classrooms in Delaware.  All public, and public-charter, schools were included in the survey, and less than 1% of the students declined to take the survey.  The census was used to collect data about video game playing tendencies and other factors, and then Whitney Decamp used the other these other factors to see what risk factors were influencing a child’s aggressive tendencies.  Her conclusion was that these risk factors that I mentioned, which include factors like witnessing violence at home, lack of parental monitoring, lower levels of parental attachment, etc., influence a child’s likeliness to act violently more than video games do. (Decamp)