The Effects of Violent Song on Aggressive Thoughts and Feelings

Abstract The aim of this present study was to investigate the effects of violent song on aggressive thoughts and feelings. The present study also hoped to answer whether males or females will show higher level of state hostility when they were assigned to listened to song with violent lyrics. In this research, 11 male and 30 female students from Help University College were recruited. The participants were assigned to listen to a song with violent lyrics or song with non-violent lyrics and were asked to complete State Hostility Scale (SHS; Anderson, Deuser, & DeNeve, 1995) after the song was over. The result showed that the participants, both male and female, who exposed to song with violent lyrics, scored higher level of state hostility than the participants who exposed to song with non-violent lyrics. The present study also found that male participants who listened to violent song indicated a higher level of state hostility than female participants who listened to violent song. The results suggested that the violent song did play a role in increasing aggressive thoughts and feelings.

The Effects of Violent Song on Aggressive Thoughts and Feelings Violence among the people in the society has increased through out the decade to a state where it is not tolerable anymore. It has become an alarming issue as it has reached to children, adolescents, young adults in such acts. Who is it to blame for such an act? The numerous videos games now-a-days or music that expresses sex, violence and drugs? Who should be responsible for all the violence and to take the blame? The American 's society has been concern about the negative effects of prolonged exposure to violent television programming emerged shortly after broadcasting began in 1946 (Anderson & Bushman, 2002b). The six major professional societies in the United States, which are, American Psychological Association, American Academy of Pediatrics, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, American

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