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Video game addiction is compulsive or uncontrolled use of video games, in a way that causes problems in other areas of the person's life. Often considered a form of computer addiction or internet addiction, video game addiction has been an increasing concern for parents as video games have become more commonplace and are often targeted at children.

Video games include computer games, console games, arcade machine games, and even cell phone, and advanced calculator games. Games can be embedded in social networking sites, such as Facebook.

Since the 1950s, gaming has grown into a multi-billion dollar industry. Some people are concerned about the long-term effects of video game playing, particularly in children. Concerns center on the following questions:

"Are video games harmful?"

"Do violent video games cause aggression?"

"Are video games addictive?"

While research is inconclusive, there does appear to be evidence that video games can be harmful, can increase aggression, and can be addictive.﻿﻿ However, these effects are highly individual and may involve many more factors than simply the amount of time spent playing games.

Signs of Addiction

Research studies show that 1% to 16% of video gamers meet the criteria for addiction.﻿﻿ However, the official definition of video game addiction varies across different organizations. Considering this, it is easy to be confused about whether your or someone else's gaming falls in the average or heavy ranges.

As with all addictions, it is important when considering the possibility of a video game addiction to not simply consider the amount of time spent gaming, but also the function it is serving the individual. Video game playing, as one of a range of recreational activities, may not be harmful or indicate an addiction.

Video game addiction or video game overuse is seen most commonly in players of the persistent multiplayer gaming universe, or Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game-MMORPG games for short. MMORPGs make up 25% of gaming revenue worldwide.﻿﻿ These games hold many attractions for gamers-they are interactive, social, competitive, and happen in real-time.

Research indicates that MMORPGs are more addictive in nature. As a result, they tend to have greater negative impacts on physical health, sleep habits and academic performance.﻿﻿

Is It a True Addiction?

Like other behavioral addictions, video game addiction is a controversial idea. While video gaming research is showing some disturbing effects, particularly in younger players, there is a lack of long-term research and insufficient evidence to definitively conclude that video game overuse is indeed an addiction.

In addition, cautionary messages from groups, such as the American Medical Association, which believes that video games are potentially harmful, have to compete with the aggressive marketing of the video games industry, whose own research, unsurprisingly, shows no ill effects.

Internet Gaming Disorder is currently included as a condition for further study in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V), the "gold standard" reference for mental health conditions.﻿﻿ Therefore, although it is not yet recognized fully as a disorder, proposed criteria have been published.

Similarity to Other Addictions

Video game addictions are similar to other addictions in terms of the amount of time spent playing, the strong emotional attachment to the activity, and the patterns of social difficulties experienced by gaming addicts.

As with other addictions, gaming addicts become preoccupied with game-playing, and it disrupts family and other areas of life, such as school.

As with other addictive behaviors, there is a range of different responses to the activity. While some gamers feel unable to reduce the time they spend playing, others do not experience cravings if they are unable to play.

Harmful Effects

As well as addiction, the following harmful effects have been found to be related to video game use:

Increased aggressive thoughts and aggressive behaviors, particularly in children under age 10.

Increased risk of light-induced seizures, musculoskeletal disorders of the upper extremities and increased metabolic rate.

Reduced pro-social (cooperative) behaviors in social interactions.

Research with people who are addicted to video games shows that they have poorer mental health and cognitive functioning including poorer impulse control and ADHD symptoms, compared to people who do not have video game addiction.﻿﻿

People who are addicted to video games also have increased emotional difficulties, including increased depression and anxiety, report feeling more socially isolated, and are more likely to have problems with internet pornography use.

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Video game addiction is compulsive or uncontrolled use of video games, in a way that causes problems in other areas of the person's life. Often considered a form of computer addiction or internet addiction, video game addiction has been an increasing concern for parents as video games have become more commonplace and are often targeted at children.

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In 2018, the World Health Organization classified Gaming disorder as an official form of addictive behavior. It consists of three components:

1. The loss of control over one's gaming

2. Gaming taking priority over other areas of life

3. Continued use despite harmful consequences and impaired functioning in other areas of one's life.

In my work with persons addicted to gaming, I've noticed a few common factors contributing to this issue.

By considering the reasons why people become addicted to games, we can gain insight into how to prevent gaming addiction before it starts.

So how do you prevent a gaming addiction?
Develop a sense of self-esteem, social belonging, and purpose. Gaming addiction develops as a way to meet these basic needs. Meeting these needs outside of a gaming environment will reduce your risk of developing a dependency.
Let's look at what the research says about each of these basic needs and how you can reduce your risk of a gaming addiction by strengthening each of these areas.

Develop a Healthy Sense of Self Esteem

According to a 2005 study, online games provide an environment for persons with low self-esteem to escape, allowing them to feel more confident. A more recent 2018 study finds the same correlation, focusing on the link between low self-esteem and risk of internet addiction.

Developing a healthy sense of self-esteem may sound like a cliché baby-boomer parenting strategy, marked by participation robbins and positive affirmations about how great we all are, but this is not what I mean by self-esteem boosting.

A 2003 study already debunked the idea that boosting self-esteem improves performance and life satisfaction. The point is not to boost self-esteem by cheerleading ourselves and our children. Instead, self-esteem begins to rise as we take action toward meaningful goals, improving our skills and abilities.

In a gaming environment, success is a quick fix. Like any form of addiction, it is a short-term solution to a long-term problem.

If experiencing low self-esteem, games can offer a temporary experience of leveling up and gaining skills. Unfortunately, these experiences are limited to the gaming world. Once outside the game, your self-esteem remains the same, going down slightly over time as you begin to neglect your offline life.

To prevent a gaming addiction, it is important to consider small ways to gain success in the offline world. Here are a few potential areas of development:

1. Maintain a clean and organized personal environment.

2. Pick up a new skill or hobby.

3. Read books (I like audiobooks, personally).

4. Consider advancing your formal education.

5. Take small steps to advance your career.

Anything that gives you a sense of growth allows you to build self-esteem, lowering the risk of needing to seek it in a gaming environment.

Self-esteem comes from seeing the result of your actions, not from falsely telling yourself how great you are. This requires changing your relationship with yourself, considering the ways your thoughts or anxieties may be blocking further growth.

If you want to learn more about how to have a productive relationship with yourself, I highly recommend checking out The Confidence Gap: A Guide to Overcoming Fear and Self-Doubt by Russ Harris.

Develop Strong Social Connections

The power of social connection is a key theme throughout all of my work. Social isolation is just as detrimental to your health as smoking, according to research.

Human beings are social creatures, so if we feel isolated or are isolating ourselves due to shame or anxiety, we may find creative ways to meet this social need. Online gaming may be one way to meet our social need for a sense of belonging and connection with others.

It can be healthy to connect with others in gaming environments if it is balanced with offline social activities. When gaming begins to negatively affect offline relationships, it might be time to reconsider ways to repair and maintain our offline relationships to prevent further harm.

A 2011 study on the psychosocial causes and consequences of pathological gaming found that "lower psychosocial well-being is more likely to be a cause than a consequence of pathological gaming." This confirms the fact that maintaining healthy relationships is a preventative factor for gaming addiction.

So how can you maintain healthy offline relationships?

1. Consider joining a local club or meetup group (Check out the Meetup App)

2. Dedicate at least one day a week to meaningfully connect with parents, relatives, or close friends, in person.

3. Regularly engage coworkers or acquaintances in small-talk about their own interests or recent events.

My article on How to Spend Less Time on Social Media may also be helpful if you want specific strategies tailored to a social media environment.

By fostering and maintaining strong offline social relationships, online gaming can serve as a supplemental form of entertainment and connection rather than a way to cope with isolation in an all-consuming way.

Online relationships in gaming environments can be beneficial and deeply rewarding, sometimes even turning into in-person relationships. The power of these relationships should not be discounted.

The goal of preventing a gaming addiction is to consider its impact on your life. If gaming is balanced and adding to your offline life, then it may be healthy. If it is taking away from your offline life, it may be helpful to reconsider the balance.

Working to develop offline social connections is one way to help meet our social needs, reducing the risk of a gaming addiction.

If social anxiety is preventing you from reaching out and connecting with others, I again recommend The Confidence Gap: A Guide to Overcoming Fear and Self-Doubt by Russ Harris (...no, I am not getting paid for this recommendation. I just love the book!).

Develop a Sense of Purpose

Without a sense of purpose, life can become unbearable. Floating around in a directionless haze is its own unique form of torture.

As human beings, we are built to pursue goals. The dopamine systems in our brains are made for this purpose. In the absence of meaningful goals, gaming can fill this void, offering a sense of purpose through elaborate missions or storylines.

Although it can be entertaining to play games, for this reason, we need to recognize when the online world is becoming a substitute for a sense of purpose in our offline world.

So what is the antidote to offline purposelessness?

Make yourself useful!

In theory, it sounds easy. It's not too hard to find someone needing help. The problem is that you can't be useful to anyone else if you're not useful to yourself first.

The key is that your way of contributing fits your unique personal strengths.

Misalignment between your strengths, values, and interests can hinder your level of usefulness and the resulting level of purpose you feel toward the role. Finding alignment between your abilities and your role requires first knowing your strengths and cultivating them.

If you want to delve way more in-depth into this topic, you can check out my comprehensive article: What Does It Mean to Have a Purpose?

Developing a sense of purpose in our offline worlds can help reduce the risk of a gaming addiction by filling this basic human need to strive for something beyond ourselves.

Conclusion

Gaming is not necessarily the problem. It is often used as a solution to an underlying problem. When our needs are not being met in our offline world, gaming is one way to meet these needs.

When gaming becomes an addiction, things outside the gaming environment begin not to matter. Self-esteem goes down, relationships suffer, and our non-gaming lives lose a sense of purpose.

Although games are used to cope with the lack of these needs being met, a gaming addiction takes a person further away from being able to meet these needs outside of gaming. The unmet needs lead to more gaming, and more gaming leads to further unmet needs.

To prevent a gaming addiction, it is important to develop a sense of self-esteem, social belonging, and purpose.

If you or a loved one is struggling with a gaming addiction, you may find it helpful to check out Game Quitters. It is a comprehensive resource designed to support gamers and loved ones.

You can also check out my recent article on How to Help Someone With an Addiction for general insights on how to maintain a productive helping relationship with the person you are supporting.

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Nowadays, video games have been part of every individual's life because every one of us used it as a stress reliever and they find it happy. As days, past an ever-increasing numbers of users, players and individuals are beginning to utilize the said video games. In the meantime, video game turned out to be one of the most addictive games and have some of cognitive benefits such as, improve coordination, enhance memory, improve brain's speed and enhance multitasking skills.

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Video games is also called a 'computer games' or 'digital games', that refers to a variety of interactive games played on a different platforms, such as gaming device, television or mobile phone device. In modern people's life, games are irresistible. Way back before, individuals only have and tend to play the existing game which is the indoor and outdoor activities. But due to the urge of the spice up of the technology 'video games' is born, have been introduced and the attention and interest of most individuals is band to various kinds of video games.

It is actually growing fast and almost all of the people especially teenagers often spend their spare time in playing such games. Video games are quick getting one of the most mainstream media of decision among youngsters and youthful grown-ups. Similarly as with any new media appreciated by youth, however moderately unused by older folks, heap reactions might be seen, going from interest and marvel to dread and concern. Verifiably, new media have suffered times of reactionary caution from lawmakers, activists, and researchers the same until youth themselves age into the seniors of society and acknowledgment gets typical.

In that time, open doors for the positive utilization of another medium might be deferred. Video games are one of the freshest media structures to end up under logical investigation. Until this point in time, a great part of the consideration has been negative, concentrating on potential mischief identified with fixation, animosity, and brought down school execution.

Even though, children, teenagers, and adults spending so much time in playing video games it can also give benefits or impact to them such as positive and negative effects. There are some positive effects of playing video games. The following are : Improve cognitive functions because they can gain and may enhance their memory, reasoning and visual processing. Quick thinking and accuracy so that the players can prepare smart decisions and easily cope up with unexpected changes of the game. Problem-solving ability because video games can help children, teens and adults to develop problem solving skills such as puzzle game and etc. The negative effects of playing video games are : Addiction to games can result to a depression, insomnia, anxiety and isolation because players are most likely addicted to the games. Poor academic performance this is one of the side effect of video games on players. Spending video games for long hours can affect the academic performance of the students in school. Bad effects on health because players are likely love to play games rather than to exercise.

Video games can clearly consume the attention of children and adolescents. Since videogames have the ability to connect with youngsters in learning encounters, this has prompted the ascent of education attainment. Just by watching youngsters it turns out to be evident that they favor this sort of way to deal with learning. In any case, it gives the idea that not many games on the business advertise have instructive worth. Some evidence suggests that important skills may be built or reinforced by videogames. For example, spatial visualization ability or mentally, rotating and manipulating two and three dimensional objects improve with video game playing. Videogames were likewise more compelling for kids who began with moderately poor abilities. It has additionally been recommended that videogames might be helpful in balancing singular contrasts in spatial aptitude execution. Because playing video games can also assist children in setting goals, ensuring goal rehearsal, providing feedback, reinforcement, and maintaining records of behavioral change. Videogame innovation carries new difficulties to the instruction field. Videogames speak to one procedure that might be accessible to the study hall educator. Care ought to be taken that eager utilization of this method doesn't pull up other progressively powerful strategies. Video what's more, PC based games may have points of interest not present in other learning techniques.

For instance, the capacity to pick unique answers for a troublesome issue and afterward. Videogame innovation brings new difficulties to the training field. Youngsters mention to us what they do at home, at school and with their companions impact those choices have on an anecdotal game enables understudies to explore different avenues regarding critical thinking in a relative safe condition. Videogames have extraordinary positive potential despite their diversion esteem. There has been extensive achievement when games are explicitly intended to address a particular issue or to show a specific expertise. Although generalizability outside the game-playing circumstance stays a significant research question. What is likewise obvious from the exact writing is that the negative results of playing quite often include individuals who were extreme clients of videogames. From commonness thinks about here, there is little proof of genuine intense unfriendly consequences for wellbeing from moderate play. Unfriendly impacts are probably going to be moderately minor, and brief, settling immediately with diminished recurrence of play, or to influence just a little subgroup of players. Unnecessary players are the most in danger from creating medical issues albeit more look into seems, by all accounts, to be truly necessary.

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My son won't listen to me and I need help. What can I do to stop him?

Klare Heston is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker in Ohio. She received her Master of Social Work from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1983.

If you've tried implementing some of the different suggestions from the article but you're still having trouble, you might be having problems with your authority as a parent. In this case, the situation is bigger than just video game playing. Consider going to a parenting class, reading parenting literature, or seeing a family therapist.

I'm currently invested in video games. I'm doing tournaments and game testing. It's not a bad career, so why try to get kids to stop playing?

Klare Heston is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker in Ohio. She received her Master of Social Work from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1983.

Yes, there are some good career opportunities in the video game industry. However, only a small percentage of very skilled players go on to play professionally, just like in athletics. Ask yourself: How old is my child/How old are my children? How are multiple hours of video game playing effecting them developmentally? Are they keeping up with their schoolwork? Do they have any social connections in everyday life? Or only online? Consider your answers to these and determine whether video games are more beneficial or detrimental in the long run.

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