Computer games have become a popular pastime among children and
adolescents. Current study includes a report of the effect of these games on arousal.
Participants were 50 adolescent boys with age range 15-19. first measured variables
related to arousal include blood pressure, heart rate, breathing rate and body
tempertarue, and then participants' exposure to computer game related to his group
during 30 minutes (counter strike for violent group and FIFA 2005 for non – violent
group) and immediately after end of game vaiables measured again. Results showed
violent games increases arousal significantly contatining systolic and diastolic blood
pressure, heart rate and breating rate, but don't increases significantly body
temperature. Whereas non – violent games don't increases significantly arousal.
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