Influencia de la televisión violenta en el comportamiento agresivo en niños de 10 años de edad

Abstract

The present investigation was made in the educative unit “San Roque” from the city of Cuenca, Ecuador, During 2013, in which 20 boys and girls from the sixth grade participated. The purpose of this investigation consist indeterminating the impact of violence on tvwhh the relation to aggressive behavior in 10 year old kids, so was necessary to know the general characteristics. That kids in this age have afterthat, we proceded to define the different kinds of violence, its predisponent factors, and the difference with the term “Aggressiveness’”; finally we explained violence on tv, its characteristics, its influence on agressive behavior and its effects. Methodologically this investigation was of quasi-experimental descriptive type that reached a corelationship level through an easy – understanding- survey for kids, at three different moments: 1) before, 2) after watching a violent movie, 3) after watching a non- violent movie, which follows a cognitive – conductive psychological vigw, elaborated by the authors with psychological and methodological assesment, which was used to establish the atitudes, agressive responses and the identification with violent figures previously, a pilot test was taken on lo year old children to establish the reliability of the test. Based on said test, the results were: 5% of tested children presented a clear change in behavior after watching violence on tv and another 5% already had agressive behavior prior to watching violence on tv. Proving that there isn’t a direct corelationship between violence on tv and shot – term agressiveness, we to the fact that there weren’t significative changes of the percentage in the behavior of the studied group.