What Critics Say:
When will the World see playing video games as just another hobby or behavior that can be changed and positvely influential.?
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Fortunately correlational studies do NOT state facts, they state a connection.
The connection is that the negative effects of video gaming are individually symptomatic rising from underlying conditions rather than existing as an INDEPENDANT problem
Are Video Games the only reason for mental health problems?
There have been many proposals to the American Psychology Association, pushing to classify video games as a disorder saying the sole reason is video games.
Reasons for the push to pathalogize Excessive Video Gaming:
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The problem that clinicians and scientists are finding is that the criteria these proposals find their facts under do not correlate with calling excessive video gaming an addiction or disorder.
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Problems with criteria:
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Instruments used to conceptualize and asses excessive video gaming lack
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clinical validation​
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lack norm scores
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lack information on measuremtn specificity
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lack standardized assesment
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lack longitudinal case follow up
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essential atheoretical
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suffer fundamental psychometric issues such as implicitly assumed by potentially inappropriate reflective measurement model (Bean et al.)
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Because the data that is produced is not consistent or reliable, it produces false positive answers
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Scientist use the same criteria that is used for substance abuse disorders, to categorize excessive video gaming
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After all the proposals and experiments the Supreme court ruled that the correlational studies alone do not prove video games to be harmful or the cause of negative behaviors(Drugas et al p.70).
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