The following is excerpted from an online article posted by Yahoo! News.
Teenagers who spend too long fixated on a screen while yanking at a joystick risk not only sleeplessness and falling grades but even depression.
A survey of thousands of adolescents in Hong Kong has found so-called “binge gaming,” or spending at least five hours in a row playing computer games, to be “associated with depression, anxiety, and poor sleep.”
Boys appear to be more likely to be affected than girls, the researchers found, ahead of writing up their study for the medical journal PLOS One.
From Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Chinese University of Hong Kong, and HKCT Institute for Higher Education, the researchers assessed almost 2,600 schoolchildren, using what they described as “well-validated self-report scales” to account for anxiety, depression, stress, sleep levels, loneliness and learning progress.
Three in 10 of those surveyed reported spending enough time on video games to be described as binge gamers or to have so-called internet gaming disorder – almost four out of 10 boys and around 25% of girls.
Regardless of whether they were male or female, binge gamers were more likely to report not sleeping as well as others and being more prone to anxiety or even depression, with their education performance lagging in turn.
Source: Yahoo! News
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/teen-gaming-addicts-prone-stress-081428270.html
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