How Does Television and Media Affect Children

The study of the psychological impact of violence is very difficult in general and in the Arab world in particular. The lack of research and studies in the Arab countries turned to the review and tracking of these effects in a global studies and research we believe that the human rights wherever it is, the son of his environment is affected by and affect them. The community often misunderstands the research on violence in the media in general. The reason for this is the way with regard to research and practice because of the difficulty of subjecting a random sample of children in their early years to follow up the effects of violence in the media on them after 15 years. For example, to note if one has any kind of violence. The same determinants of medical research as well; for example, a researcher cannot be smoking on the effects of groups of people at random so that they smoked and the quantities of different types of cigarettes for 15 years and then explore on the number of individuals who have cancer. The researchers on smoking effect, considering results of their experimental research on number of individuals who smoked during their lives, and then monitor the rate. They statistically controlled for other factors - the behavior of healthy and unhealthy, which further reduce or increase the incidence of cancer. It is then able to detect whether smoking contributed to cancer or not. Because they cannot carry out pilot studies on cancer, people understand the direct resort to testing on animals. Similarly researchers in violence in the media are doing studies on the long-term exposure of children to the media and look at the types of behavior that gained with the passage of time. And also look at other factors such as aggressive behavior and the problems of the former family and the like. They do not look to violence in the media in a vacuum, for approving whether there was a relationship between TV viewing and violent behavior, for example, as well as look at...