SUBOTRON electric MEETING: Gaming addiction - Fact or fiction?

SUBOTRON electric MEETING: Gaming addiction - Fact or fiction?

Date: Mon, Dec 19, 19:00
Venue: Raum D / quartier21
Free entry

Prof. Dr. Mark D. Griffiths (Nottingham Trent University UK) is one of the world\'s leading experts in research on digital games addiction and has published over 270 refereed research papers, three books, over 65 book chapters and over 1000 other articles.

This paper overviews the small but growing area of videogame addiction with particular emphasis on online videogame addiction. Worldwide, there are relatively few practitioners that specialize in the treatment of videogame addiction and this may be because there are so few players who are genuinely addicted to playing videogames. However, the Internet may be facilitating excessive online game playing as evidenced by the increasing number of specialist addiction treatment clinics for online videogame addiction. Taking all factors and variables into account and by considering the prevalence of play, the prevalence of serious adverse effects on health appears to be relatively rare based on the empirical evidence to date. An overview of the available literature appears to indicate that adverse effects are likely to affect a small subgroup of players and that frequent players are the most at-risk from developing health problems. Those that it does affect will experience subtle, relatively minor, and temporary effects that appears to resolve spontaneously with decreased frequency of play.


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