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Video Games Don't Make Kids Anti-Social
Hope Cummings of the University of Michigan and Elizabeth Vandewater from the University of Texas at Austin recently finished a study on how video game usage affects how children use their time.
According to the study, boys who play video games spend less time reading, while gamer girls spend less time on their homework. Time socializing with family and friends, however, does not suffer at the hands of a Wii or Xbox. Interestingly, the amount of time spent doing homework by boys stayed the same, and the amount of time spent reading stayed the same for girls.
As far as gaming habits are concerned, the study found that boys spend 58 minutes gaming a day during the week, and only 37 a day during the weekend. Girls on the other hand spent 44 minutes gaming on weekdays and one hour and four minutes a day on weekends.
The study did not look at grades, or how efficiently homework or reading was completed. It does, however, help dispel the notion that kids who play video games do so at the cost of social isolation.
From New Scientist
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Comments
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Subscribe to commentsGregory TJan 26th 2009 8:19AM
My 12-years old daughter was on the game 7 days a week. She called it a hobby but it was certainly more than that. Under my friend's recommendation I tried parental control software Ez Internet Timer http://www.internettimer.net to take control over Internet activity of my child. It does the trick perfectly. Of cause, she is playing games now, but only 1 hour a day. And from that moment my daughter began to spend more time outdoors and play with her friends.
ForzinMay 13th 2009 5:09AM
I agree; they don't make you anti-social. If anything they make you more social. They give you something to relate to, talk about and discuss.
They can, however, make you relatively inactive.
2tigersJul 20th 2007 11:31AM
are they talking to other kids while playing no and if they play too often i believe they will become anti social i was always shy but now all i do is play games and dont talk to anyone except a few ppl
FrosttAug 3rd 2007 1:42PM
I agree. I played video games all the time when I was littler, and it gave me conversation topics, not took them away. I was never a very social kid before games, anyways.