Prescott, Sargent, and Hull. 2017. Metaanalysis of the relationship between violent video game play and physical aggression over time
Prescott, Sargent, and Hull use meta analysis to determine the links between video game violence, aggression, and ethnicity. The following is my annotation of their paper. This study seeks to determine the reliability and effects of the claim that exposure to video game violence causes aggression. It also seeks to find the effect, if any, that ethnicity has on exposure to video game violence and aggression. Aggression in the study is categorized as “overt physical aggression” in order to avoid false inflations of results for minor increases in aggression. As a result, a weak link was found between video game violence and aggression. In addition, this result varied by ethnicity. The strongest correlation was for white participants, and the weakest correlation was for Hispanic participants. In order to gain studies for meta analysis, this study sorted through a collection of databases with combinations of relevant keywords such as video games and aggressive behavior. All studies were ...