How Video Games Affect Emerging Adults

So the question that is brought towards us today is whether or not video games have a negative or positive impact on emerging adults. Emerging adults is a stage in life that most young people go through. These groups of young people contain the age groups of 18-25 year olds according to Jeffrey Jenson Arnett (Arnett, 2000). Those that in this age group are defined as going through emerging adulthood, which means they are exploring what their identity is in society. These emerging adults are looking to be independent and they start to explore life with choices that they independently make.. According to studies by a poll, the poll found that 48.6% of emerging adults thought they had reached adulthood, 4.6% of them said no, and 46.8% said yes but at the same time no (Overview of Student Development
Most students will look for an activity to comprehend these feelings and video games are one of them. We will be discussing how video games affect emerging adults cognitively, physiologically, emotionally, and socially in various ways. First, the paper will start off at looking at the cognitive side of how video games affect emerging adults. In order to show how video games affect emerging adults cognitively, two resources were found to show how video games affected college students cognitively. We will be looking at Saleem’s Effects of Prosocial, Neutral, and Violent Video Games on College Students' Affect and Yao’s Sexual Priming, Gender Stereotyping, and Likelihood to Sexually Harass: Examining the Cognitive Effects of Playing a Sexually-Explicit Video Game. In Saleem’s article, he explains in his research the effects of different types of games that can or possibly can not affect the mind of college students. There are three sets of games that were given to the university students, prosocial games, neutral games, and violent games. Prosocial games are the family friendly games that are considered not harmful