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Male video game addiction is neural, study suggests - Technology & Science - CBC News - 1 views

www.cbc.ca/...science-games.html

video game addiction evidence neural gender

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  • frognvgs frognvgs on 07 Nov 11
     
    This study says there is a difference between how men and women react to video games. Men more easily become addicted.
  • frognvgs frognvgs on 07 Nov 11
     
    Did you repost this? Seems like i cannot edit tags.
  • frognvgs frognvgs on 08 Nov 11
     
    Nope, that option does not appear for me: I posted the link, then you seem to have deleted and then reposted it and "taken possession" of it. Looks to me like only the poster can edit tags?
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wood_problems_game_addiction.pdf (application/pdf-objekt) - 2 views

laurier.communicationstudies.ca/...od_problems_game_addiction.pdf

game addiction definition scientific_facts media_hysteria

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  • frognvgs frognvgs on 06 Nov 11
     
    This paper argues that the recent concerns about video game "addiction" have been based less on scientific facts and more upon hysteria.
  • frognvgs frognvgs on 07 Nov 11
     
    Two possible approaches: game addiction is/is not a real problem (dichotomous); or: game addiction exists on a scale from barely noticeable to debilitating. The article by Taylor and Francis below discusses a scale (7x3 indicators).
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Taylor & Francis Online :: Development and Validation of a Game Addiction Scale for Ado... - 3 views

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game addiction definition scale adolescents

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  • Although the APA (2007)5. American Psychiatric Association. (2008). Statement of the American Psychiatric Association on “video game addiction”. Retrieved July 15, 2008, from http://www.psych.org/MainMenu/Newsroom/NewsReleases/2007NewsReleases/07-47videogameaddiction_2_.aspx View all references does not consider “video game addiction” a mental disorder at this time, such a diagnosis could be confirmed by 2012, if research warrants it. The main aim of the current study is to respond to the need for more research on this issue by developing a game addiction scale for adolescents based on criteria for pathological gambling found in the DSM (APA,
  • Our data indicated that the percentage of addicted adolescent Dutch gamers is approximately 2%, but it could be as high as 9%, depending on the method of determining when someone is addicted.
  • frognvgs frognvgs on 04 Nov 11
     
    Should we discuss the definition of game addiction before moving on to the discussion of causes?
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