There is a new poll. What would you do to tackle video-game rage/aggression/violence? I'm interested in your ideas for a potential solution to the problem. Feel free to vote, anyone is allowed.

Ouch! I'm breaking my back trying to interview people, well.. it's not a normal interview after all. 2 hours per person, roughly 10 minutes watching them play a game each (9 games in total - yeah, I changed it from 12 games to 9, it just takes too long!). So far I've managed to interview 5 people, phew!... Another 5 more to go then. So far so good...

I've extended the polls to next month, please feel free to vote even if you are anonymous, about what you think about video-gaming  and game raging concerning those questions. The more you vote, the better I have an idea of what the population thinks about the topic. Cheers! :D

With special help from a uni friend there is now a forum to discuss your personal experience with video-game rage or rage quiting. Please feel free to share your thoughts on the forum (not sure if you're supposed to register on it). Here is the link anyway: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18375357

I am currently conducting an experiment (not a really good one) to observe the effects and behavioural changes to the volunteering participants. It involves playing various games (about 4 games) with various consoles (about 3-4 consoles). At the moment, I am trying to book a room in the Boots Library (a public place) in Nottingham Trent University (City Campus) so it is not quite available yet. However, I will be needing more participants (about 7 more) to help me out in this experiment.

If anyone is interested, please contact me either by this blog or you can email me at: n0267624@ntu.ac.uk or you can contact me via facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000726529122&ref=tn_tnmn

I've just finished reading Psychology of Violence - 'The Effect of Video Game Competition and Violence on Aggressive Behavior: Which Characteristic Has the Greatest Influence?' By Paul J. C. Adachi and Teena Willoughby, 2011.
It seems that there is more to video-game violence than just the violent content, it seems that the competitiveness of the actual video-game can also play a major role in increasing aggressive behaviour whether or not it is a violent or non-violent game. They tested around 60 psychology students to get these results but even they say that it isn't a big enough sample or a varied enough sample to represent a population. Despite this, the article/essay has managed to explain more about video-game rage (they would call it video-game aggression/violence) than anything I've read so far. However, it was very specific about certain variables and models in the research, and of course had technical jargon in which can mainly be understood by psychologists and psychology students, and therefore most of it was hard to understand (for me, that is).

Perhaps there may be a more generalised theory about video-game raging/aggression/violence somewhere, I'll just need to keep looking...

OK, so I've read an article called 'A longitudinal test of video game violence influences on dating and aggression: A 3-year longitudinal study of adolescents' from Elsevier. Apparently an experiment was conducted on 165 people to find out out if there were any violence or aggression that were related to playing violent video-games. The results of the experiment proved otherwise. It seemed video-games (mainly the violent ones) did not contribute, if at all, to youth aggression and violence. It turns out that there is something called Moral Panic Theory which can explain why many people think video-games cause violence and aggression to our children. This article helped to dispel any suspicions I may have had on the causes for aggression on violence but it hasn't helped me find out what exactly causes the player/gamer to become aggressive. Perhaps I might find out more from some other articles out there. Does anyone else know a better article that could provide me some more information on causes of video-gamer rage?

Video-game raging - an investigation into anger issues involving video-games

Hello, my name is Jake. I am a Product Design Student and this is my final year in University. One of my modules is about design theory and the work I need to do is a 10,000 word essay on a topic (any topic, as long as it relates to the course in some way).

I have started a dissertation into the investigation about video-game anger issues. It seems to be relatively lightly touched area of research and I could use the help of everyone who finds this blog about this subject. I have already read a book about anger management and am now reading some articles about video-game aggression/violence. However, as I've already mentioned, I could use some help as I am not a psychology student or therapist and this is unfamiliar territory.