Proposal Effects Of Online Games On NSU Students

Video games and university students. These days, university students were told about the stereotype of negative effect of playing video games by their parents or elders. Parents mostly keep telling them to stop playing or lessen their time playing video games that they love. But, does the parents know that in reality video games actually are not as bad as they think? In fact, video games hold a great potential and advantage in various aspect despite of its entertainment value. There are several advantage of video games that beneficial for university students such as its help in the aspect of learning, promote healthy life style and enhance student’s social life.

Video game addiction is not yet recognized by the American Medical Association as a diagnosable disorder, but addiction has become a very real problem for many video game players. An addiction is when the person needs more and more of a substance or behavior to keep them going, and if the person does not get more, they can become irritable and miserable. Compulsive gaming meets these criteria, and there have been many studied instances where severe withdrawal symptoms in game addicts are seen when parents take away the child’s electronic gaming system. According to chapter three of the book, a study in Singapore of 3,000 middle schoolers found that the

In Iran, there are few and limited studies on the effects of addiction to computer games on players. Considering the increasing rate of addiction to computer games among Iranian adolescents and youth, the present study was conducted to

International studies have shown that between seven and eleven per cent of gamers show some symptoms associated with addiction. Some teens are heavy users of online role-playing games (RPGs) such as World of Warcraft and multiplayer games such as Call of Duty in which they interact with other players in real time. These teens will often neglect schoolwork and other aspects of their daily lives when they become immersed in these games. The American Medical Association has identified “video game overuse” as ‘behaviour’.

Technology as a tool plays an important role in people's lives and provides users with the services to be convenient. However, some people apply the technology losing control, which harm themselves. When I studied in Liaoning University of Technology to get bachelor degree, which is in Liaoning province in China, we had abundant free time. Most students utilized the free time to study with computers, which were working for searching for information and making documents. However, some students addicted to play computer games. For instance, one of my roommates kept playing an online game, Dungeon and Fighter, in six nights because of the game rewards. This experience was just a part of his university playing life. He had continued

From the past till now, video game never loses its popularity, from Gameboy to Wii, and from NDS to LOL, millions and billions of people are obsessed with this imaginary world. Some of the video games are created for educational purpose, however, most are created for the people who wants to escape from reality. “In a national Harris Poll survey of 1,178 American youths (ages 8-18), ISU Assistant Professor of Psychology Douglas Gentile found nearly one in 10 of the gamers (8.5 percent) to be pathological players.” ("Figure 2f from: Irimia R, Gottschling M (2016) ") Not only the statistic shows the high rate of addiction towards video games, terrible consequences of the addictions are more than enough to be served. For example, an extreme case of an Chinese kid called Xioyi suicide because he lose in one of his game on December 27, 2004; where he left a note that said he wanted “to join the heroes of the game he worshiped.” Video game has the potential to ruin a person’s life, as well as their family, or even the

With this in mind, Han and Renshaw gives several studies have reported that video and on-line game play may improve visuospatial capacity, visual acuity, task switching, decision making and object tracking in healthy individuals. Moreover, Han and Renshaw feels like Green and Bavelier that gaming have most benefits than negative effects on the mind. Han and Renshaw argues that any kind of changes of one’s behavior and or alterations of the mind comes down to the individual and the specific kind of game. They show early studies state internet addiction (involving game playing) reported altered social behavior, increases aggression, loneliness, reduces attention and depressed mood in patients with internet addiction. Important to mention, more

Research started in 1983 aimed to discover how this addiction starts, the prevalence, as well as the risk factors associated with this behavior. “The studies on Internet gaming addiction in the new millennium reported prevalence estimates which vary significantly and range from 0.2% in Germany25,26 to 50% of Korean teenagers.” (Kuss, D. J.) In fact, South Korea views this addiction as a public health concern. So much so, that up to 24% of children diagnosed with internet addiction are hospitalized. As a growing number of studies appear, the psychological consequences are becoming better defined. These consequences include, “Sacrificing real-life relationships, other pastime activities, sleep, work, education, socializing, and relationships, obsession with gaming and a lack of real-life relationships, lack of attention, aggression and hostility, stress, dysfunctional coping, worse academic achievement, problems with verbal memory, and low well-being and high loneliness.” (Kuss, D.

Internet gaming is one of the most common problem of which many people around the globe are facing in their daily lives. Addiction, one of the serious problems with internet gaming have caused severe changes to their behavior and attitude to life. Majority of teenagers and

Online gaming has become a serious problem in the society especially among young adults. This is because, most young adults are now stuck on their computers and internet, playing games all day. This has led to serious gaming problems among such individuals because they have no social life outside of the game world. Playing game, is a good way of having fun and developing one’s cognitive ability. The benefits of playing video games are numerous when done in moderation. “Playing brain-teasing game for just two hours a week may help slow the degree of mental decay associated with the natural aging process, according to a study this year from the University of Iowa”( Guarini. 2013). However, with the increase of video games production and the availability of those games online comes a lot of gaming problem one which includes online gaming addiction.

Online games become a new hobby for the past ten years. People of different ages and genders play in online games and it is one of the easiest ways of entertainment. Today we have a huge variety of online games such as “Dota 2”, “World of Warcraft ”, “Day Z” or “Battlefield 4”. They are varied in genre, graphics and the plot, therefore everyone can find the game they like. Since the online games become very popular, and played by the huge number of users, online gaming might affect people’s lives, and there are two sides of the coin.

Hussain and Griffiths explored two hypotheses: (1) assess the impact of online gaming on the lives of gamers, the independent variable being online gaming, the dependent,

Online gaming is one of the widely used leisure activities by many people. Teenagers who are playing these online games said that they are playing these games just for fun, to keep away from the heat of the sun, without knowing that there are a lot of effects of playing these games that are more than what they think.

People will be surprise for what I am going to talk about. To start I have to tell a little bit about the topic “video games”. Video games is any electronically game played with the help of controller and consoles connected to a television or a computer. People can find different kinds of video games as action, shooters action adventure, and management simulation, role playing games, strategy and racing. The first video games were created by scientist and programmers after the Second World War. The first video games simulated shot missiles to objects flying. But until 1972 was created the first home video system called Magnavox Odyssey. This video games were too simple that people only can move and objet down and up. One of the famous games was called “Ping Pong”. But Sonny and Microsoft revolutionized video games making them more enjoyable and complex. Now days people can play video games everywhere and anytime with the help of a console or computer. People can play online with gamers from different countries around the world. Now I can start, people hear about video games always think about violence. But what they do not know it is that besides violence exist other big problem that can be new for all of them. It is called addictions. Aviv Malkiel Weinstein said that “Computer game addiction is excessive or compulsive use of computers and video games that may interfere with daily life”. How a person who play video games can become an addicted? It can be

Thesis: Although video games are used for entertainment purposes, they have had many negative effects on health, behavior, and study of teenagers.