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The Effect Of Violent Behavior On Adolescent
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CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY There is a
great concern about the incidence of violent behavior among children and
adolescents. This complex and troubling issues needs to be carefully
understood by parents, teachers and other adults. Children as young as
preschoolers can show violent behavior. Parents and adults who witness
the behavior maybe concerned, however, they often hope that the child
will grow out of it. Violent behavior in a child at any age always needs
to be taken seriously. It should be no be quickly dismissed as just a
phase they are going through. Adolescent access to and consume a variety
of these different media forms, many of which have high level of
violent content. Most home have television sets and next to sleeping,
watching the television (TV) is the frequent activity of adolescent.
Lomonaco, Kim, and Ottaviano (2010) assert that the average child in the
United States spends four hours a day watching the television. The
situation in Nigeria is not very different most children, between 5 and
20 years of age, spend over 6 hours a day using entertainment media
(television, commercial and self recorded videos, movies, video games,
print, radio, recorded music, computers and the internet(Roberts, Foctir
and Rideout, 2005). In recent times, watching Nigeria movies, (Africa
Magic) most of which have a high violent content, has become a popular
pastime of many youths. The implication n of this is that by the time
the average child is 18 years old, he/she would have witnessed many act
of violence, including murders. Beresin (2009) found that up to 20 acts
of violence per hour occur in adolescent programmes. The high level of
violent content of the media forms correlate with youth violence.
Internet website showing violence; (killing, shooting, fighting, etc)
correlate with about 50% increase in reports of seriously violent
behavior (Lomonaco et al, 2010). The result of the violent media
programmes and desensitization to violent video games (Caragey, Cray and
Bushman, 2007). TV sets are commonly present in bedrooms. The effect of
having a TV set in a child’s bedroom is that it increases their TV
viewing time. It may also imply that parent will be less likely to
monitor the content of what is watched, and might not be able to set
consistent for media use. Also, such children might participate in fewer
alternative activities, like reading, sports and games. Violence is
often considerable, even in programmes which are not advertized as
violent. Overall, weapons appear on prime time TV on an average of about
nine times each hour. Adolescent shows are programmmes are more likely
to juxtapose violence with humor, and are less likely to show the long
term consequence of violence. While violence is not the human race, it
is an increasing problem in modern society. With greater access to
firearms and explosives, the scope and efficiency of violent behavior
has serious consequences. We need to look at the recent school shootings
and the escalating rate of youth homicides among urban adolescents to
appreciate the extent of this ominous trend. While the cause of youth
violence are multi factorial and include such variable as poverty,
family psychopathology, child abuse, exposure to domestic and community
violence, substance abuse and other psychiatric disorders, the research
literature is quite compelling that adolescent exposure to media
violence plays an important role in the etiology of violent behavior.
While it is difficult to determine which children who have experienced
violence are at greatest risk, there appears to be a strong correlation
between violence and aggressive behavior within vulnerable at risk
segments of youth
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]This study was design to examine the effect of violent behavior on adolescent. Using selected secondary school in Sapele Local Government area of Delta State as a case study. In attempt to achieve the objectives of the study, three hypotheses derived from the research questions were tested. A structured question was the instrument for the collection of relevant data from the sampled respondent. The collected data were subjected to both descriptive (frequency count, table and percentages) and inf ... Continue reading---