Countless teenagers have suffered from academic performance and physical and mental health damage due to the "mental opium" of indulging in video games. Recently, China introduced new regulations that restrict all young people under the age of 18 from playing online games for a maximum of 3 hours a week, and they can only play games between 20 and 21 o'clock on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
However 341 adolescent scientists from the University College London University of London Institute of Cardiology and Diabetes in Sweden and the Swedish Academy of Cardiology and Diabetes 11 As a teenager, it was discovered that boys who played video games regularly at the age of 11 had fewer depression symptoms at the age of 14. Compared with boys who cannot play video games once a month, boys who play video games almost every day have 24% fewer depressive symptoms after 3 years, and this effect is more pronounced in boys who exercise less. For boys who exercise more, the frequency of playing video games has no obvious effect on the depressive symptoms after 3 years.
In addition, the frequency of playing video games seems to only affect the mental health of boys, not girls. The more obvious impact on the mental health of girls is the frequency of using social media. At the age of 11, girls who used social media almost every day had 13% more depression symptoms at the age of 14, compared with girls who could not use social media once a month. Girls generally use social media more than boys and play less video games.
However, this study only considered the frequency of playing games or surfing social media, and did not collect data on the specific usage time per day.In addition, it did not consider the impact of parents' educational methods on children's depression symptoms. Is it possible that parents who allow their children to play video games every day are more enlightened, so their children have fewer depression symptoms? If I play video games for several hours a day, will my symptoms of depression increase?
The research leader, Mats Hallgren, a professor at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, said: “The relationship between watching electronic screens and mental health is very complicated, and we need more research. It can be understood well. Any measures designed to reduce the time people spend on electronic screens should be targeted. Our research shows that children’s use of electronic screens is not useless, but may be beneficial. But we still need to encourage young people People go to exercise. If you use the electronic screen for a long time, you should get up and exercise in the middle."
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