HEC/News: Playing violent video games has risks: study (The Washington Post)

HEC/News
Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Playing violent video games has risks: study
The Washington Post (DC) February 7, 2009
By Joene Hendry

"Among young college students, the frequency and type of video games
played appears to parallel risky drug and alcohol use, poorer personal
relationships, and low levels of self-esteem, researchers report..."

"...these findings simply indicate video gaming may cluster with a
number of negative outcomes, 'at least for some segment of the
population,' said Padilla-Walker, an associate professor at the School
of Family Life at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah."

"She and colleagues examined the previous 12-months' frequency and type
of video game and Internet use reported by 500 female and 313 male
undergraduate college students in the United States..."

Full article available at
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/07/AR200902
0700864.html

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