Citation

Winkel M, Novak DM, Hopson H. J. Res. Pers. 1987; 21(2): 211-223.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1987, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/0092-6566(87)90008-0

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Male and female adolescents served as subjects in an experiment designed to assess the relationship among personality factors, heart rate, and aggression after having played an aggressive video game. For males, personality traits and heart rate were separately related to aggression. Personality characteristics similar to those of the Type A individual were related in a positive direction to heart rate in females. The content of the video games did not affect heart rate or postgame aggression, even though females displayed greater mean heart rate than males throughout the experiment. The results are discussed with regard to sex role stereotypes, content-related explanations of aggression, and Type A personality characteristics. That teenagers may be mimicking the violence in video games was not supported.

Language: en