TY - JOUR A1 - Möller, Ingrid A1 - Krahé, Barbara T1 - Exposure to violent video games and aggression in German adolescents : a longitudinal analysis N2 - The relationship between exposure to violent electronic games and aggressive cognitions and behavior was examined in a longitudinal study. A total of 295 German adolescents completed the measures of violent video game usage, endorsement of aggressive norms, hostile attribution bias, and physical as well as indirect/relational aggression cross- sectionally, and a subsample of N = 143 was measured again 30 months later. Cross-sectional results at T1 showed a direct relationship between violent game usage and aggressive norms, and an indirect link to hostile attribution bias through aggressive norms. In combination, exposure to game violence, normative beliefs, and hostile attribution bias predicted physical and indirect/relational aggression. Longitudinal analyses using path analysis showed that violence exposure at T1 predicted physical (but not indirect/relational) aggression 30 months later, whereas aggression at T1 was unrelated to later video game use. Exposure to violent games at T1 influenced physical (but not indirect/relational) aggression at T2 via an increase of aggressive norms and hostile attribution bias. The findings are discussed in relation to social-cognitive explanations of long-term effects of media violence on aggression. Y1 - 2009 UR - http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jhome/32356 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1002/Ab.20290 SN - 0096-140X ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hartmann, Tilo A1 - Möller, Ingrid A1 - Krause, Christina T1 - Factors underlying male and female use of violent video games JF - New media & society N2 - Research has consistently shown that males play violent video games more frequently than females, but factors underlying this gender gap have not been examined to date. This approach examines the assumption that males play violent video games more because they anticipate more enjoyment and less guilt from engaging in virtual violence than females. This may be because males are less empathetic, tend to morally justify physical violence more and have a greater need for sensation and aggression in video game play than females. Results of a path model based on survey data of 444 respondents and using multi-step multiple mediation analyses confirm these assumptions. Taken together, the findings of this study shed further light on the gender gap in violent video game use. KW - Emotions KW - enjoyment KW - gender KW - guilt KW - media choice KW - media use KW - moral disengagement KW - selective exposure KW - video games KW - violence Y1 - 2015 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444814533067 SN - 1461-4448 SN - 1461-7315 VL - 17 IS - 11 SP - 1777 EP - 1794 PB - Sage Publ. CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Krahé, Barbara A1 - Möller, Ingrid T1 - Links between self-reported media violence exposure and teacher ratings of aggression and prosocial behavior among German adolescents JF - Journal of adolescence N2 - The relations between adolescents' habitual usage of media violence and their tendency to engage in aggressive and prosocial behavior in a school setting were examined in a cross-sectional study with 1688 7th and 8th graders in Germany who completed measures of violent media exposure and normative acceptance of aggression. For each participant, ratings of prosocial and aggressive behavior were obtained from their class teacher. Media violence exposure was a unique predictor of teacher-rated aggression even when relevant covariates were considered, and it predicted prosocial behavior over and above gender. Path analyses confirmed a direct positive link from media violence usage to teacher-rated aggression for girls and boys, but no direct negative link to prosocial behavior was found. Indirect pathways were identified to higher aggressive and lower prosocial behavior via the acceptance of aggression as normative. Although there were significant gender differences in media violence exposure, aggression, and prosocial behavior, similar path models were identified for boys and girls. KW - Media violence KW - Aggressive behavior KW - Prosocial behavior KW - Aggressive norms KW - Teacher ratings Y1 - 2011 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adolescence.2010.05.003 SN - 0140-1971 VL - 34 IS - 2 SP - 279 EP - 287 PB - Elsevier CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Krahé, Barbara A1 - Möller, Ingrid T1 - Playing violent electronic games, hostile attributional style, and aggression-related norms in German adolescents N2 - The relationship was examined between exposure to and preference for violent electronic games and aggressive norms as well as hostile attributional style. Following a pilot study to sample widely used electronic games varying in violent content, 231 eighth-grade adolescents in Germany reported their use of and attraction to violent electronic games. They also completed measures of hostile attributional style and endorsement of aggressive norms. There were significant gender differences in usage and attraction to violent electronic games, with boys scoring higher than girls. Significant relationships were found between attraction to violent electronic games and the acceptance of norms condoning physical aggression. Violent electronic games were linked indirectly to hostile attributional style through aggressive norms. The findings are discussed with respect to North American research on the aggression-enhancing effect of violent electronic games. (C) 2003 The Association for Professionals in Services for Adolescents. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved Y1 - 2004 SN - 0140-1971 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Krahé, Barbara A1 - Möller, Ingrid A1 - Berger, Anja A1 - Felber, Juliane T1 - Repression versus sensitization in response to media violence as predictors of cognitive avoidance and vigilance JF - Journal of personality N2 - Repression and sensitization as situational modes of coping with anxiety were examined as predictors of trait measures of cognitive avoidance and vigilance. In this study, 303 undergraduates saw a violent film clip to elicit anxiety. Increases in skin conductance level (SCL) and state anxiety (STA) from baseline were measured to identify repressors (high SCL, low STA) and contrast them with sensitizers (low SCL, high STA) and genuinely low anxious individuals (low SCL, low STA). State anger was also recorded. Trait measures of vigilance and cognitive avoidance were collected 2 weeks earlier. Significant SCL x STA interactions indicated that repressors scored higher on cognitive avoidance and lower on vigilance compared to sensitizers and low anxious participants. Repressors were less likely than sensitizers to report gaze avoidance during the clip. The anger by SCL interaction was nonsignificant, suggesting that repressors and sensitizers differ specifically in the processing of anxiety rather than negative affect in general. Y1 - 2011 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6494.2010.00674.x SN - 0022-3506 VL - 79 IS - 1 SP - 165 EP - 190 PB - Wiley-Blackwell CY - Malden ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Krahé, Barbara A1 - Bieneck, Steffen A1 - Möller, Ingrid T1 - Understanding gender and intimate partner violence from an international perspective N2 - This paper reviews the international literature on intimate partner violence with a focus on gender differences in perpetration and victimization rates. A total of 35 studies from 21 countries are discussed that report prevalence or incidence rates of men's and women's involvement in physical and/or sexual aggression against an intimate partner. In addition, evidence on risk factors as well as consequences of intimate partner violence for men and women is presented. Conceptual and methodological differences between the studies and the lack of comparable databases within countries are discussed as limitations of the evidence, and perspectives for future research are outlined in the framework of cross-cultural psychology Y1 - 2005 SN - 0360-0025 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Krahé, Barbara A1 - Bieneck, Steffen A1 - Möller, Ingrid T1 - Understanding gender and intimate partner violence from an international perspective Y1 - 2005 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Krahé, Barbara A1 - Waizenhöfer, Eva A1 - Möller, Ingrid T1 - Women's sexual aggression against men : prevalence and predictors Y1 - 2003 ER -