{"id":9565,"date":"2022-07-27T15:29:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T15:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=9565"},"modified":"2022-07-27T15:29:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T15:29:00","slug":"gaming-time-has-little-effect-on-short-term-mental-health-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/health\/gaming-time-has-little-effect-on-short-term-mental-health-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaming time has little effect on short-term mental health: study"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gaming time has little effect on short-term mental health: study.\u00a0 The short-term mental-health impact of playing video games “is probably too small” to be noticeable, according to a major study by the University of Oxford<\/a> published Wednesday.<\/p>\n

“Our study finds little to no evidence of connections between gameplay and well-being,” said Andrew K. Przybylski, a researcher at the university s Oxford Internet Institute.<\/p>\n

The study surveyed 38,935 players from the English-speaking world, asking them to rate their mental well-being and comparing it with the amount of time they spent gaming in the previous two weeks.<\/p>\n

“Many have warned about video games possible addictive qualities and their potential harm to player\u2019s well-being, leading to far-reaching and widely contested health policy decisions,” said the study, published by the Royal Society.<\/p>\n

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In China, children are only allowed to game for one hour each day on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.<\/p>\n

“Our results show that the impact of time spent playing video games on well-being is probably too small to be subjectively noticeable and not credibly different from zero,” the study said.<\/p>\n

Game publishers including Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo provided researchers with the time each respondent spent playing, with their consent.<\/p>\n

It followed players of seven titles — “Animal Crossing: New Horizons, “Apex, Legends,” “Eve Online,” “Forza Horizon 4,” “Gran Turismo Sport” and “The Crew 2” — over a six-week period, taking surveys at two-week intervals.<\/p>\n

The study s authors said that more work was needed to identify the causal effects over a longer time period.<\/p>\n

“Although we studied the play and well-being of thousands of people across diverse games, our study barely scratched the surface of video game play more broadly,” they said.<\/p>\n

“Our conclusions regarding the causal nature of the observed associations are tentative.<\/p>\n

“Studies with both a higher measurement resolution and a longer overall time span are needed to detect potential more transient or slower effects,” the authors said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gaming time has little effect on short-term mental health: study.\u00a0 The short-term mental-health impact of playing video games “is probably too small” to be noticeable, according to a major study by the University of Oxford published Wednesday. “Our study finds little to no evidence of connections between gameplay and well-being,” said Andrew K. Przybylski, a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":9566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[6308],"class_list":["post-9565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-technology","tag-university-of-oxford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}