Several variables in the relationship between television violence and aggression related to characteristics of the viewers and to the portrayal of violence are identified. There has been a large number of studies and experiments television violence and behaviour. This report will use some of the studies to show how the Children in them were affected by TV Violence. The first which will be illustrated is by Joy, Kimball and Zabrack (1986) (Matlin, 1999). In this study, they located a town in a remote part of Canada that had no television prior to 1974, when one station made available. Therefore this town experienced a change in television viewing patterns. In contrast, a second t

Repeating viewing of violence on TV leads to a reduction in emotional response to violence on the screen and to an increased acceptance of violence in real life. As consequence, demand grows for more and more extreme forms of fictional violence and thus exposure to large amounts of film violence may desensitise children to real-life violence. The real extent of the effect that TV violence can have on the children who watch it is not as conclusively shown. Aggressive behaviour is related to the total amount of television watched, not only to the amount of violent television watched and this was a study by Eron & Huesmann (1986). There is another study and the final one to be covered in this essay, which was done by Phillips. It was a study on adults and as such is here to emphasize the fact that TV programs can affect anyone, therefore children. This study was done in 1983, and it was to do with antisocial behaviour that can be caused by TV. It is dealt with suicide in soap operas. After a six years of study, Phillips found that if an important actor in the soap opera committed suicide on the show, within the three days there was a significant increase in the number of suicide in America. It was derived that the largest audience who would watch soap operas would be woman; therefore the showing of this event on TV caused this increase showing how some TV programs affect people. Through that is is possible to deduce that if TV can affect adults in such a way then the same should be true for children (Sheehan, 1987).

In conclusion, televised violence does have an effect o

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