TY  - JOUR
A1  - Möller, Ingrid
A1  - Krahé, Barbara
A1  - Busching, Robert
T1  - Consumption of media violence and aggressive behavior a longitudinal study of German adolescents with and without migration background
JF  - Zeitschrift für Entwicklungspsychologie und pädagogische Psychologie
N2  - The consumption of media violence and aggressive behavior were assessed three times in a sample of N=1,052 German adolescents with and without migration background over a period of two years with 12-month intervals. The adolescents in the two groups, who were in grades 7 and 8 at T1, were matched by gender, age, type of school, and academic achievement. Students in the migrant group reported higher consumption of violent media. At T3, they showed more physical but less relational aggression than their peers of German background. Cross-lagged panel analyses showed parallel associations between media violence use and aggression in both groups: Media violence consumption at T1 and T2 predicted physical aggression at T2 and T3 independent of ethnic background. The reverse path from physical aggression to media violence consumption was nonsignificant. No link was found between media violence use and relational aggression over time.
KW  - media violence
KW  - aggression
KW  - migration
KW  - adolescence
KW  - longitudinal study
Y1  - 2013
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1026/0049-8637/a000086
SN  - 0049-8637
VL  - 45
IS  - 3
SP  - 121
EP  - 130
PB  - Hogrefe
CY  - Göttingen
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Busching, Robert
A1  - Krahé, Barbara
T1  - Charging neutral cues with aggressive meaning through violent video game play
JF  - Societies
N2  - When playing violent video games, aggressive actions are performed against the background of an originally neutral environment, and associations are formed between cues related to violence and contextual features. This experiment examined the hypothesis that neutral contextual features of a virtual environment become associated with aggressive meaning and acquire the function of primes for aggressive cognitions. Seventy-six participants were assigned to one of two violent video game conditions that varied in context (ship vs. city environment) or a control condition. Afterwards, they completed a Lexical Decision Task to measure the accessibility of aggressive cognitions in which they were primed either with ship-related or city-related words. As predicted, participants who had played the violent game in the ship environment had shorter reaction times for aggressive words following the ship primes than the city primes, whereas participants in the city condition responded faster to the aggressive words following the city primes compared to the ship primes. No parallel effect was observed for the non-aggressive targets. The findings indicate that the associations between violent and neutral cognitions learned during violent game play facilitate the accessibility of aggressive cognitions.
KW  - media violence
KW  - aggressive cognitions
KW  - associative networks
KW  - learning
Y1  - 2013
U6  - https://doi.org/10.3390/soc3040445
SN  - 2075-4698
VL  - 3
IS  - 4
SP  - 445
EP  - 456
PB  - MDPI
CY  - Basel
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Busching, Robert
A1  - Krahé, Barbara
T1  - Charging neutral cues with aggressive meaning through violent video game play
T2  - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe
N2  - When playing violent video games, aggressive actions are performed against the background of an originally neutral environment, and associations are formed between cues related to violence and contextual features. This experiment examined the hypothesis that neutral contextual features of a virtual environment become associated with aggressive meaning and acquire the function of primes for aggressive cognitions. Seventy-six participants were assigned to one of two violent video game conditions that varied in context (ship vs. city environment) or a control condition. Afterwards, they completed a Lexical Decision Task to measure the accessibility of aggressive cognitions in which they were primed either with ship-related or city-related words. As predicted, participants who had played the violent game in the ship environment had shorter reaction times for aggressive words following the ship primes than the city primes, whereas participants in the city condition responded faster to the aggressive words following the city primes compared to the ship primes. No parallel effect was observed for the non-aggressive targets. The findings indicate that the associations between violent and neutral cognitions learned during violent game play facilitate the accessibility of aggressive cognitions.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 678 
KW  - media violence
KW  - aggressive cognitions
KW  - associative networks
KW  - learning
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-476181
SN  - 1866-8364
IS  - 678
ER  -