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Game Addiction And Aggression Link "Weak"

An article in journo CyberPyschology & Behavior offers these factoids about game addiction based on surveying 7,000 online gamers using online questionnaires;

  • There was "weak evidence" linking "excessive" gaming and aggression

  • 11.9 percent "fulfilled diagnostic criteria of addiction concerning their gaming behavior"

The surveyed sample was 94 percent male, averaged 21 years of age and uses their PCs. A lot.

Game Addiction and Aggression [The Guardian]

10:00 PM on Fri May 18 2007
By Brian Ashcraft
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