EFFECTS OF TELEVISED VIOLENCE ON AGGRESSION IN CHILDREN

In this paper, an attempt has been made to focus on the Effects of Televised Violence on aggression in children. No doubt, television is playing an active role in developing values, increasing the knowledge of the children and providing various types of information to them, which could be understood, even by the children, However, some scenes are shown on the television screen, which put negative effects on the children, i.e. murder, robbery, forcible rape, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny and motor vehicle theft. Murder, forcible rape, aggravated assault and, robbery is classified as violent crime (against people), where as larceny, burglary and motor vehicle thefts (against property) are classified as non-violent crime. Some scenes are shown on the television screen, which are not true in real life situations, but child believes as true to those and try to put his own, doing the stunts and in resulting, he gets series injuries. Due to the lack of maturity, children have not wisdom to discriminate between what is wrong and what is right. Due to this, children get aggression and aggression motivate to them to run on the wrong track which is totally against the society. In this way, we can say that the effects of televised violence are directly on aggression in children because they have capacity to copying each and everything, not understanding. Studies conducted on these effects; show that there is positive relationship between televised violence and aggression in children. In the daily life, we often, about such types of activities and crimes, read in the newspapers, listen in the radio and watch on the TV screen.