According to Hong Kong psychiatrists, this activity directly causes anxiety and depression. The young people who spend playing are most at risk five hours or more hours a day. Scientists in Hong Kong watched 2592 schoolchildren and adolescents, among whom it had an excessive playing problem of thirty -one percent.
By definition, Binge Gaming is considered when a person plays on a console or computer for at least five hours. A total of thirty percent of the participants said they were playing at least once a month. In boys, this practice was 14.3 percent more common than in girls.
“Binge gamers of both sexes showed more cases of depression, anxiety, stress, loneliness, sleep problems and lower self -confidence in their study abilities as those who did not play like that,“They say the authors.
In the UK, according to the latest government data, 91 percent of children and young people aged three to fifteen play video games. The World Health Organization (WHO) even classifies playing disorder as health.
