Study: video gamers are more likely to be drunks and druggies
Yet another study was done on video gamers. This one has come to the conclusion that gamers are more likely to be drunks and druggies, and tend to alienate themselves from friends and family.
The subjects of their study? University students. Huh.
Yet another study was done on video gamers. This one has come to the conclusion that gamers are more likely to be drunks and druggies, and tend to alienate themselves from friends and family.
The subjects of their study? University students. If there wasn’t a better place to see if video gaming and drinking go together… (err… aside from our office…)
But anyway. The study was done by Professor Laura Walker from Brigham Young University in Utah. According to Walker, Texas Ranger:
The most striking part is that everything we found clustered around video game use is negative. It appears video games are related to a host of other negative outcomes.
It may be that young adults remove themselves from important social settings to play video games, or that people who already struggle with relationships are trying to find other ways to spend their time. My guess is that it’s some of both and becomes circular.
Of the 800 students that were questioned, those who played games regularly were 10% more likely to go on a bender or smoke weed than non-gamers. They are also more likely to become withdrawn, and females in particular tend to have low self esteem.
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Via CVG
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