Saturday 22 August 2015

Video Game Addiction

What is Video Game Addiction?

Video Game Addiction is described as an impulse control disorder, which does not involve use of an intoxicating drug and is very similar to pathological gambling.  Video game addiction has also been referred to as video game overuse, pathological or compulsive/excessive use of computer games and/or video games.

How Can Someone Get Addicted To it?

They usually use gaming as a way to escape from everyday life, these type of gamers avoiding problem by playing games, which in turns interferes with their lives because they're so busy playing game.

Joe Hilgard, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Psychological Sciences in the MU College of Arts
and Science, did a studies that supports the claim that MMORPG's are the most addictive genre of video games.
"The games provide opportunities for players to advance levels, to join teams and to play with others. In addition, the games provide enormous fantasy worlds that gamers can disappear into for hours at a time and forget about their problems. MMORPG's may be triple threats for encouraging pathological game use because they present all three risk factors to gamers." says Joe Hilgard.

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