{"id":106109,"date":"2016-09-30T08:43:49","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T06:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=106109"},"modified":"2016-09-30T08:45:15","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T06:45:15","slug":"your-university-problems-arent-being-helped-by-video-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/106109-your-university-problems-arent-being-helped-by-video-games","title":{"rendered":"Your university problems aren’t being helped by video games"},"content":{"rendered":"

You’re right to be worried about gaming taking over your life when going to university, reports Dr Victoria Dunkley for Psychology Today<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

“New studies<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0show that 85% of college men\u00a0are game players, and one in eight develops addiction patterns. In a college of 20,000 students, about\u00a08,500 will be male\u00a0gamers;\u00a01 in 8 would mean that over\u00a01,000\u00a0students are at risk.”<\/p>\n

“Research also demonstrates a correlation\u00a0between gaming and lower\u00a0GPA as well as\u00a0drug and alcohol <\/a><\/strong>violations during the first year of college.”<\/p>\n

Of course there are a number of other factors that contribute to the first year drop out rate – alcohol, drugs, and striking out on your own for the first time are daunting tasks, but that’s not actually the biggest problem when dealing with video game and internet addiction at colleges, says Dunkley.<\/p>\n

Although it was one of the biggest reasons as to why men\u00a0struggle and drop out their first year, the more worrying news is that college personnel simply did not know what to do about it.<\/p>\n

Fortunately video game\u00a0addiction seems to a problem society is beginning to take seriously, as MyGaming recently reported <\/a><\/strong>on the first rehab center to focus purely on internet and video game addiction.<\/p>\n

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Higher education isn’t a game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":106115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,20],"tags":[31,9770,16529,12916],"class_list":["post-106109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-features","tag-active","tag-problems","tag-psychology","tag-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106117,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106109\/revisions\/106117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}