Kids Playing Video Games for Avoiding Parent?

Children who think that their parents rarely pay attention or just too fussy, tend to play videogames more than other children. Parents who are too negative acts make the child away.

According to a study conducted by researchers from Michigan State University. This study is one of the first in finding the relationship between parental behavior with a tendency to play videogames on children.

Researchers surveyed more than 500 students from 20 secondary schools and found that children who feel more of their parents' behavior as negative behaviors (eg lots of nagging) and lack of monitoring, the more you play videogames.

"The next step is to figure out what triggers the behavior of children's videogames. Do negative interactions with young parents pushing children into the world of video games? Is it possible to escape from the negative effects of the parents?" says study leader Linda Jackson as quoted from the official website of Michigan State University on Thursday (09/08/2011).

"Or the opposite, whether playing video games cause children to see the relationship with parents as a negative thing?" Jackson said that is also a professor of psychology at Michigan State University added.

"It could also personality factors child which is responsible for the relationship between negative perceptions of parents and playing videogames," he continued.

Jackson then asked an interesting question, namely the relationship between playing video games with the actual behavior of parents felt. "Perception does not always reflect reality. And this may occur in child-parent relationship," he said.

The research was published in the conference "World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications 2011". This study is one part of a larger project in which Jackson and his colleagues explore the effects of the use of technology on academic achievement, social life, psychological well-being, and moral reasoning of children.