New study claims that gaming has "little effect" on short-term mental health

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As gamers, you've almost certainly heard of video games being the cause of problems, usually in regards to mental health. There have been hundreds of studies throughout the years, claiming that playing violent video games leads to more mass shootings, or a lack of empathy towards others--something even parroted by the former United States president. This time, however, there's a more positive study going around. The University of Oxford has just completed its study on if video games impact mental health. According to that study, which oversaw 38,935 different gamers across English-speaking countries over the course of six weeks. gaming has "little effect" on a person's well-being. The games were a mix of a variety of different genres and violence levels, with the titles involved being Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Eve Online, Forza Horizon 4, Apex Legends, The Crew 2, and Gran Turismo: Sport.

Andrew Przybylski, a researcher involved in the study, claimed, "our study finds little to no evidence of connections between gameplay and well-being." The study itself made the determination that, "the impact of time spent playing video games on wellbeing is probably too small to be subjectively noticeable and not credibly different from zero." As is the case with most studies, though, there's plenty of room for error, or misrepresentation; while the results were in favor of video games not affecting gamers' mental health negatively, the team stated that the conclusions drawn from the study were "tenative", and that they'd, ideally, want to research a wider assortment of games, and over a longer course of time.

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[...]and you try to twist my words into egocentric nationalism[...]
you kinda was, at least it was the impression I got reading you and others but "nationalism" is not the quite word, the accurate word is "exceptionalism".

From Noam Chomsky to Tucker Carlson and everyone between, they're all plagued by the American exceptionalism, gbatemp is a good exhibit of that.
 

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you kinda was, at least it was the impression I got reading you and others but "nationalism" is not the quite word, the accurate word is "exceptionalism".

From Noam Chomsky to Tucker Carlson and everyone between, they're all plagued by the American exceptionalism, gbatemp is a good exhibit of that.
Yeah, we're sooo exceptional that our widespread mental health issues lead to a near-constant stream of mass shootings, which is uniquely an American problem. If anything, I was implying the opposite, that we're possibly the least exceptional developed nation on the planet. Other nations have video games, without our issues to go along with them. We don't need studies to tell us video games aren't a driver of poor mental health, that much is obvious.
 
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Feminist, Politician and Media to name a few that Attacks us Gamers every day...

Now ask me again what makes me go little more Crazier every day..
 

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"New study claims that gaming has "little effect" on short-term mental health".. That won't stop the media from blaming video games for causing violence anytime soon..
 
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"New study claims that gaming has "little effect" on short-term mental health".. That won't stop the media from blaming video games for causing violence anytime soon..
But only a little violence.
 

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Does it now? And besides it's the same for them, violence is violence, it doesn't matter if it's only a little or all of it. What matters is that it does!
It was a joke.
Study show gaming has little effect on violence, which they will rephrase to mean "gaming causes a little violence".
Not a knee-slapper, but they can't all be classics.
 
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In all honesty, studies like this are inherently flawed. Violent media, whatever they might be, desensitize the audience. Let’s not forget about the long history of people fainting in cinemas way back when - now we don’t see that. We’re collectively more accustomed to violence, those things don’t faze us anymore. That being said, they won’t make anyone more violent than they already are. Researchers always take the wrong angle of this - violent media have the capacity to act as a trigger. Whether we like it or not, some people simply have the wires in their brains crossed, and it doesn’t take much to set them off. Thing is, anything can function as a trigger - even just a sound or a smell. You effectively can’t police that. It’s a weird debate to have because it always boils down to “crazy people are crazy”, and we already know that.
 

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gamers have shit mental health by default, it can't get worse than it already is

We do? I’ve been gaming for 43 years now, and my mental health is perfectly fine. In fact, at this point in my life, I don’t think I’ve ever been happier.
 

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Yeah, we're sooo exceptional that our widespread mental health issues lead to a near-constant stream of mass shootings, which is uniquely an American problem. If anything, I was implying the opposite, that we're possibly the least exceptional developed nation on the planet. Other nations have video games, without our issues to go along with them. We don't need studies to tell us video games aren't a driver of poor mental health, that much is obvious.
Exceptional doesn't always mean good--the egocentric/narcissistic position, that you insist on, still bleeds a sense of superiority. You are still failing to recognize that other countries have mental illness issues and video games. America existing isn't proof, lol.
 

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