When it concerns anger management and video games some interesting new findings have come to light, especially in regard to the way the heart beats and also the pattern of sleep among boys that like to play violence inspired video games. Research that is ongoing in the Swedish Uppsala University that along with Karolinska Institut in Sweden have been able to shed some very interesting light on the topic of anger management and video games.
Increase In Heart Rate
The study that was conducted on the influence that playing of video games had on the lives of boys aged between twelve and fifteen showed that when these boys played different kinds of video games at home and in the evening it led to the boys’ heart beats increasing during the period that they played violent video games. And, what’s more, this increase in their heart rate remained even when the boys were sleeping though the boys themselves did not experience any degradation in their sleep pattern after having played violent video games. In this therefore necessary to find anger management solutions to solve video game related ill effects.
What’s more, there little doubts the fact that anger management for video game related ill effects needs to deal with how video game playing has an effect on the central physiological as well as on the autonomous nerve system even though the boys are tested may not even be aware of any changes taking place in their minds and bodies. Since these studies are still at a preliminary stage and so it is not possible to draw any conclusions regarding the significance of such changes in the heartbeat over a longer period of term it is still interesting to note that certain physiological changes occur.
And, when more knowledge is gained about how anger management helps in treating video games related ill effects, then the new knowledge will help to better understand the mechanisms involved that cause such changes after which suitable counter measures can be suggested and tried out.
Given the immense popularity of video games and also given the fact that a majority of video games are violence related it can be concluded that playing of such games will lead to increase in aggression in the players. What is as yet unclear is whether the aggression is caused because of more violent thoughts arising in the minds of player or because of increase in hostile feelings or even simply because the players become more aroused and so more prone to violence.
Anger management counseling is often considered as being slightly different to normal counseling. This is because most normal counseling can be likened to plucking weeds from a garden: what comes out is the top while the roots remain firmly implanted leading to more weeds growing back once more. This means that for counseling to be effective it must be able to pull out the root causes of your anger, and not just deal with masking the obvious signs of anger.
