Impact of Specific Movie Genres on Aggression Patterns and Risky Behaviours in Young Adults

Abstract

Media in the form of movies play a huge role in an individual’s overt behaviour. With the growing influence of movies and series whether on big screen, television, or OTT platforms, there have been several cases of behaviour imitation in real life. In such cases individuals from any age, gender, or socio -economic background, tend to imitate the patterns of the lead character in a particular movie or series. Hence it was hypothesised that movie genres have a significant impact on an individual’s aggressive and risk-taking behaviours. It even hypothesised that aggressive and risk-taking behaviours are highly correlated. This research focused at how aggressive and risk-taking behaviours in young adults between the ages of 18 and 30 are significantly affected by specific movie genres, with a sample size of 200 participants. This was achieved through Movie Preference Index (formulated by the researcher) on movie genres, Buss and Perry Aggression Scale (by Buss and Perry) to measure the aggressive behaviours, and General Risk Propensity Scale (by Zhang, Highhouse, and Nye) to measure risk taking behaviours. The study has focused on the impact of movie genres on aggressive and risk-taking behaviours. The data was analysed by using the Independent Samples t-test and Correlation Matrix. The findings of this study have shown that specific movie genres didn’t have a significant impact on aggressive and risk-taking behaviours. It even found that the dependent variables are highly correlated with each other.