Medical News Today
Douglas Gentile, an Iowa State University associate professor of
psychology has conducted a new study published in July's edition of Psychology of Popular Media Culture,
which may offer a new approach for schools to help profiling students
who are more likely to commit aggressive acts against other students.
Gentile's study involved 430 children between the ages of 7 to 11 years
(grades 3-5) from 5 Minnesota schools. He found that exposure to media
violence is one of six risk factors to predict later aggression. The
other five risk factors include low parental involvement, gender, bias
toward hostility, physical victimization and prior physical fights.
Knowing which students have a risk of aggression can help school
officials to identify which students might have a higher tendency to
fight or bully others later in the school year.
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