{"id":60501,"date":"2013-11-24T14:12:35","date_gmt":"2013-11-24T12:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=60501"},"modified":"2013-11-24T14:14:57","modified_gmt":"2013-11-24T12:14:57","slug":"video-games-arent-as-bad-as-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/60501-video-games-arent-as-bad-as-tv","title":{"rendered":"Video games aren&#8217;t as bad as TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A study of 11,014 children in Britain has generated some interesting results: <strong>television exposure was found to predict a small increase in behavioural problems, while videos games did not.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The researchers note that further study is required to establish causes for this.<\/p>\n<p>The University of Glasgow study used surveys of mothers in the UK Millennium Cohort Study to track their children&#8217;s behaviour over time. Children surveyed were as young as 5.<\/p>\n<p>Conduct problems, emotional symptoms, peer relationship problems, hyperactivity\/inattention and prosocial behaviour were reported by mothers using the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire. Change in adjustment from age 5 years to 7 years was regressed on screen exposures; adjusting for family characteristics and functioning, and child characteristics.<\/p>\n<p>Leading into the study the researchers noted some characteristics of this field of research:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>High screen time has been linked with behavioural and emotional problems in children, although findings have not all been consistent.<\/li>\n<li>Most longitudinal studies have focused on television and almost all have been conducted in North America.<\/li>\n<li>Few studies have examined TV and electronic games separately to see whether they have similar effects.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This study adds the following findings to the current body of research:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Watching TV for 3 hours or more daily at 5 years predicted increasing conduct problems<\/strong> between the ages of 5 years and 7 years.<\/li>\n<li>No effects of TV at 5 years were found on hyperactivity\/inattention, emotional symptoms, peer relationship problems or prosocial behaviour.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Playing electronic games at 5 years was not associated with increased risk of problems<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The researchers concluded:<\/p>\n<p>TV but not electronic games predicted a small increase in conduct problems. Screen time did not predict other aspects of psychosocial adjustment. Further work is required to establish causal mechanisms.<\/p>\n<h6>Source: <a title=\"BMJ\" href=\"http:\/\/adc.bmj.com\/content\/early\/2013\/02\/21\/archdischild-2011-301508.full.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">BMJ<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming market news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/57832-your-mom-could-be-a-gamer-esa.html\">Your mom could be a gamer: ESA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/55971-no-link-between-violent-games-anti-social-behaviour-research.html\">No link between violent games, anti-social behaviour: research<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/45056-gamers-are-incredibly-savvy-internet-users.html\">Gamers are incredibly savvy internet users<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/44599-gamers-are-bad-drivers-study.html\">Gamers are bad drivers: study<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/59305-avatars-affect-real-world-sexuality-research.html\">Avatars affect real-world sexuality: research<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/55215-gamer-brains-see-more-react-faster-than-noobs-research.html\">Gamer brains see more, react faster than noobs: research<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Television more of a bad behaviour culprit than video games, research finds<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":55388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6058,21,103,1886,6764],"class_list":["post-60501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-gaming-violence","tag-headline","tag-research","tag-study","tag-video-game-study"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60501","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\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}