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Sasis Folk Panthong

Mr. Abel Cadias
English 10/ 10:04
June 20, 2016
The Effects of Violent Movies Towards Childrens Behavior
Watching violent movies can influence childrens behavior and mind to become
aggressive and rebellious.The purpose of this research report was to identify the effect of
watching violent movies to childrens behavior. The importance of this research report is to
provide awareness on the disadvantage of watching violent action movies childrens behavior.
The information in this research report was based on four sources. First,the article entitled
Banned Movies provided a list of violent movies that doesnt appropriate for children. Next, the
article entitled Violence in the Media: What Effects on Behavior? indicated the research studies
of how violent action movies affect the childrens behavior. Third, the article by Dr. Christopher
L. Heffner explained the psychological effect of violent action movies to childrens mind.
Finally, the article entitled Journal Issue: Children and Electronic Media from the website The
future of children discussed about the experimental studies of how violent action movies
disadvantage the children.
Violent Movies
Movies is one of the most popular hobbies in our world, most of the movie contain good
idea and good thing, but some of it only contain the very bad scene, it is called violent

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movie(Tompkins,2003). Violent movie is a movie that contain the bloody scene, kidnapping
scene, rape scene and others which improper for children. The most violent ever in the history is
called The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. This movie had been banned in every country in the
World. The reason is because almost of the scene in the movie is only killing. The scene contains
the psychopathic behavior became cause for concern, leading to the eventual ban. Most of the
movie lovers told that if you have the kids dont let your kid watch this movie. The example of
bloody violent movie is Ninja Assassin, in the movie most of the scenes were only about
killing. The movie wasnt censored any of bloody thing. The article entitled Banned Movies
from enkivillage.com, provided lists of violent movies that kids must not watch.The common
violent movies are The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Cannibal Holocaust, Ninja assassin, 300, Kick
ass, Kill bill and Smokin aces(Tina,2015).
Effects to Childrens Behavior
There are many researches told that violent movies affects the children behaviors. The
experimental studies have shown that even your kids watch the violent film only one time it can
change their behavior too. Kaj Bjorkqvist assigned one group of four years old children to watch
violent movie and another to watch nonviolent ones. They take all the children to playing
together in one room. The result shown that children who watched the violent movies have more
aggression than another who watch nonviolent movies. The researchers also did the experiment
on the fifteen years old boy and girl. The outcome is similar to the four years old children but it
is more aggression such as punching, beating, choking, threatening, or attacking with a knife or

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gun. So parents shouldnt let their children to watch any of violent because it can cause your
children to become aggressive(Anderson,2008).
Effect to Childrens Mind
The article entitled Here's how violent, graphic and scary movies affect your kids
indicated that fifty-two percent of children in 1999, were had a trouble with sleeping and eating
after watching violent movies. This is only the short term effect. AllPsych Online, an online
classroom dedicated to psychology, told that children who watch the violent movies have more
percent to increased feelings of hostility, decreased emotional response to the portrayal of
violence and injury that lead to violent behavior through imitation(Scribner, 2014). There are
also the research from The National School Safety Center told that much of the recent violence
plaguing schools has been created by violent and graphic films. Instead of learning about the
values in school, students are more likely to watch movies to gain information about what morals
to follow. Nowaday children spend more time to watch the movies than before, this telling that
the children can easily have aggression mind than before.
Conclusion
This research report aimed to identify the effect of violent movies to children behavior.
This research report concluded that violent movies had a lot effects than people think. It could
change childrens personality and the way they think. This research report also concluded that the
violent movies make children have aggressive behavior. The research report recommends the
parents to shouldnt let their children watch violent movies.

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References
Scribner, H. (2014, July 21). Here's how violent, graphic and scary movies affect your
kids. Retrieved June 3, 2016, from http://national.deseretnews.com/article/1951/hereshow-violent-graphic-and-scary-movies-affect-your-kids.html
Tompkins, A. (2003, December 14). The Psychological Effects of Violent Media on
Children. Retrieved June 02, 2016, from http://allpsych.com/journal/violentmedia/
Kaplan, A. (2012, October 05). Violence in the Media: What Effects on Behavior?
Retrieved June 11, 2016, from http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/child-adolescentpsychiatry/violence-media-what-effects-behavior
Anderson, C. (2013, February 11). Journal Issue: Children and Electronic Media.
Retrieved from http://www.futureofchildren.org/publications/journals/article/index.xml?
journalid=32&articleid=60ionid=291
T. (n.d.). Banned Movies. Retrieved June 13, 2016, from
http://www.enkivillage.com/banned-movies.html