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Games Definitely Don't Harm Kids, Says Huge UK Study - xSicKxBot - 11-18-2013
Games Definitely Don't Harm Kids, Says Huge Study
A decade-long study of over 11,000 children in the UK has found no association between playing video games from as young as five, and mood or behavioural problems in later life.
Originally published in the British Medical Journal (via Games and Learning), the findings were part of the UK Millennium Cohort Study and sought to explore how exposure to screen entertainment affected children's psychosocial development.
The key findings that came out of the study included that exposure to video games from the age of five was shown to have no effect on behaviour, attention or emotional issues. Neither television nor video games caused attentional or emotional problems and there was no difference between boys and girls in the survey results.
The study did show, however, that watching more than three hours of TV a day at the age of five did lead to a small increase in behavioural problems in youngsters between the ages of five and seven. It's worth noting too, that a much lower number of children spent as long playing video games as they did watching TV.
So what does this mean? Well, most studies that span such long time-frames tend to focus on the effects of watching TV rather than the more active act of playing video games, and almost all have focused on American children. It's also one of the first studies to separate TV and video games.
The results of the survey seem to validate what others have been saying for some time now: video games are actually a positive force in the world or, at the very least, don't do any real harm.
We've reported before how video games have been found to help dyslexic children read better, and how they can also increase spacial orientation and memory formation.
While this study is unlikely to be considered the last word on the subject, it's certainly a compelling addition to the growing mountain of evidence that video games aren't a source of pernicious evil designed to rot young minds.
RE: Games Definitely Don't Harm Kids, Says Huge UK Study - MrKitty871 - 02-25-2015
My take on the subject would be that video games can be very helpful to children. One example would be that it increases motor function and development, I'm sure video games have/had negative affect/s on children at some point, but overall i feel it is good for the environment that children grow up in
RE: Games Definitely Don't Harm Kids, Says Huge UK Study - xSicKx - 02-28-2015
(02-25-2015, 10:54 PM)MrKitty871 Wrote: My take on the subject would be that video games can be very helpful to children. One example would be that it increases motor function and development, I'm sure video games have/had negative affect/s on children at some point, but overall i feel it is good for the environment that children grow up in
I got to say, Playing games sure beats selling drugs. At least for kids.. Better for them to play games than be out there causing trouble and havoc. My second view, the world is coming to the technology age, but what if a solar flare were to strike the earch and take out all electronics? Everything we put into the internet would be pointless and a lot of people would be beat out of a job. (It doesn't have to be solar flare, could be massive emp, Same concept)