Internet and video games: Causes of behavioral disorders in children and teenagers
Even though video games have been present among children for many years, children are using them more continuously and in an abusive and indiscriminate way nowadays because of the “technological boom”. It is affecting the behavior of children and adolescents. This is the reason why we are carrying o...
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| author | Lérida-Ayala, Virginia Aguilar Parra, José Manuel Collado Soler, Rocío Alférez-Pastor, Marina Fernández Campoy, Juan Miguel Luque de la Rosa, Antonio |
| author_facet | Lérida-Ayala, Virginia Aguilar Parra, José Manuel Collado Soler, Rocío Alférez-Pastor, Marina Fernández Campoy, Juan Miguel Luque de la Rosa, Antonio |
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| description | Even though video games have been present among children for many years, children are using them more continuously and in an abusive and indiscriminate way nowadays because of the “technological boom”. It is affecting the behavior of children and adolescents. This is the reason why we are carrying out this systematic review. The main objective of this article is to investigate literature that directly connects the continuous and undifferentiated use of video games with the emergence of behavioral disorders in children and young people. The PRISMA statement was followed in the process of this article. We used SCOPUS, Web of Science and PubMed as databases, moreover, we searched studies with a scoping review. The results indisputably supported six out of seven of our hypotheses. We find that the excessive use of video games causes addiction to technology, aggressive behaviors, sleep disorders, and poor school performance. In addition, it hinders social relationships and the development of emotional intelligence. To conclude, it is necessary to correctly use video games in particular, and technologies in general, adapting their content to children’s age, as well as the amount of time that they dedicate to use them. |
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| spelling | oai:repositorio.ual.es:10835-141872023-04-12T19:41:34Z Internet and video games: Causes of behavioral disorders in children and teenagers Lérida-Ayala, Virginia Aguilar Parra, José Manuel Collado Soler, Rocío Alférez-Pastor, Marina Fernández Campoy, Juan Miguel Luque de la Rosa, Antonio video games behavioral disorders technology addiction sleep disorders Even though video games have been present among children for many years, children are using them more continuously and in an abusive and indiscriminate way nowadays because of the “technological boom”. It is affecting the behavior of children and adolescents. This is the reason why we are carrying out this systematic review. The main objective of this article is to investigate literature that directly connects the continuous and undifferentiated use of video games with the emergence of behavioral disorders in children and young people. The PRISMA statement was followed in the process of this article. We used SCOPUS, Web of Science and PubMed as databases, moreover, we searched studies with a scoping review. The results indisputably supported six out of seven of our hypotheses. We find that the excessive use of video games causes addiction to technology, aggressive behaviors, sleep disorders, and poor school performance. In addition, it hinders social relationships and the development of emotional intelligence. To conclude, it is necessary to correctly use video games in particular, and technologies in general, adapting their content to children’s age, as well as the amount of time that they dedicate to use them. 2023-01-26T07:30:10Z 2023-01-26T07:30:10Z 2022-12-31 info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2227-9067 http://hdl.handle.net/10835/14187 10.3390/children10010086 en https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9067/10/1/86 Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess MDPI |
| spellingShingle | video games behavioral disorders technology addiction sleep disorders Lérida-Ayala, Virginia Aguilar Parra, José Manuel Collado Soler, Rocío Alférez-Pastor, Marina Fernández Campoy, Juan Miguel Luque de la Rosa, Antonio Internet and video games: Causes of behavioral disorders in children and teenagers |
| title | Internet and video games: Causes of behavioral disorders in children and teenagers |
| title_full | Internet and video games: Causes of behavioral disorders in children and teenagers |
| title_fullStr | Internet and video games: Causes of behavioral disorders in children and teenagers |
| title_full_unstemmed | Internet and video games: Causes of behavioral disorders in children and teenagers |
| title_short | Internet and video games: Causes of behavioral disorders in children and teenagers |
| title_sort | internet and video games: causes of behavioral disorders in children and teenagers |
| topic | video games behavioral disorders technology addiction sleep disorders |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10835/14187 |
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