{"id":1368,"date":"2015-01-13T17:12:56","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T16:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ijph.blogs.springer.com\/?p=1368"},"modified":"2015-01-13T17:12:56","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T16:12:56","slug":"computer-gaming-and-interne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/hot-off-the-press\/computer-gaming-and-interne\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer gaming and Internet use may be harmful to young people\u2019s social relations."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Although concerns are often raised about the effects of computer gaming and internet use on social relations amongst adolescents, the results of relevant studies have been contradictory. We recently published a study<\/a> that aimed to investigate whether perceived problems with computer gaming and internet use are associated with young people’s social relations.<\/p>\n

The data for this article came from the Aarhus School Survey, which was held in 2009 in Denmark and is contributing to the HBSC <\/a>study. Questionnaires were collected from 2,100 students aged 5, 7 and 9. Two main aspects of social relations were studied: structural (for example number of days\/week with spent with friends, number of friends) and functional (for example confidence in others, social support, bullying).<\/p>\n

The results can be summarised as follows:<\/p>\n

– Most young people perceived their computer gaming and internet use as unproblematic; however, there was a large minority who perceive problems in their use of computer games and internet.<\/p>\n

– Perceived problems in computer gaming were more common among boys, while girls reported more perceived problems with internet use.<\/p>\n

– Perception of problems related to computer gaming were associated with almost all aspects of poor social relations among boys. Among girls, an association was only seen for bullying.<\/p>\n

– For both boys and girls. perceived problems related to internet use were associated with bullying only.<\/p>\n

The authors conclude that computer gaming and internet use may be harmful to young people’s social relation.<\/p>\n

What do you think?<\/p>\n

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*This study was written by Mette\u00a0Rasmussen<\/span>, <\/span>Charlotte\u00a0Riebeling\u00a0Meilstrup<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Pernille\u00a0Bendtsen<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Trine\u00a0Pagh\u00a0Pedersen<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Line\u00a0Nielsen<\/span>, <\/span>Katrine\u00a0Rich\u00a0Madsen<\/span><\/a> and <\/span>Bj\u00f8rn\u00a0E.\u00a0Holstein<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

** (picture was adapted from this one<\/a>,\u00a0 under creative commons licence)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Although concerns are often raised about the effects of computer gaming and internet use on social relations amongst adolescents, the results of relevant studies have been contradictory. We recently published a study that aimed to investigate whether perceived problems with computer gaming and internet use are associated with young people’s social relations. The… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":301,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[29,39,181,216,355,455,810],"class_list":["post-1368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hot-off-the-press","category-international-journal-of-public-health","tag-aarhus","tag-adolescents","tag-computer-gaming","tag-denmark","tag-hbsc","tag-internet-use","tag-social-relations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/301"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}