Video-game associates with Health Risks in Adults?
Written by WTJ on August 18, 2009 – 6:11 pm -
Investigators at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Emory University, and Andrews University analyzed a survey data of 500 adults showing that there is a positive correlation between video-game playing and health risks in adults. The participants were from Seattle-Tacoma, and the data of self-assessment of depression, personality, health status, physical and mental health, body mass index (BMI), and quality of life were collected. It is found that generally playing video game will lead to greater depression and lower health status in female and higher BMI in male. Both sexes that play video game also have higher reliance on internet for social support.
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August 26th, 2009 at 8:27 am
I have a comment to make. Having read the paper, I don’t believe that the authors claimed that playing video games leads to these issues.
Rather, they found a correlation between these issues and the playing of video games – a very different thing indeed.
I imagine that the two are interlinked, rather than having a single causal relationship.