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Video Game Addicts and Asperger's Syndrome Patients Show Similar Traits
The study has fuelled concerns that video gaming may lead to a rise in mental health problems like depression.
During the study, John Charlton and his university colleagues examined nearly 400 gamers, most of whom were male.
The subjects were questioned about how much they played video games.
The researchers revealed that they did not specifically tested people with Asperger’s syndrome during the study.
They said that that the higher the time the participants spent playing video games, the more likely they were to show three specific traits usually associated with Asperger’s syndrome-neuroticism and a lack of extraversion and agreeableness.
Charlton reckons that people with Asperger’s may have a higher likelihood of becoming video game addicts, for it allows them to escape into a world where they can avoid face-to-face interactions.
"Our suggestion is that people with Asperger’s might be prone to addiction to MMORPGs (massive multi-player online role playing games)," Discovery News quoted Charlton in an email.
"It is definitely not true to say that playing games can cause Asperger’s syndrome," he added.
People with Asperger’s often can’t make eye contact and fail to pick up social cues, like boredom, in others.
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Thus this study needs to be looked at carefully and perhaps redone to consider this problem.
Preston Page, LCSW, LSATP