Playing video games unlikely to impact well-being, says study


Those who felt they played video games under their own volition had greater levels of well-being, while those who played because of a 'sense of compulsion' fell on the opposite-end of the scale. — Photo by Alex Haney on Unsplash

STATEN ISLAND: A large study by the Oxford Internet Institute found "little to no evidence" linking the amount of time playing video games to overall well-being.

Researchers worked with the publishers of seven popular video games and used data from 39,000 international adult gamers to conduct the analysis, which was published in the Royal Society Open Science journal.

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