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The current study is a first step towards identifying and validating game mechanics that can be used in new applied games to target anxiety symptoms or other psychopathologies with the same underlying deficits.doi:10.1007/s10862-018-9684-4Wols, Aniek...
The World Health Organization classified gaming disorder as a mental health disorder earlier this year, but Gentile says there is still a lot to learn about potential risk factors for addiction. This paper is one of the first to provide evidence that using video games to cope with anxiety is ...
In the following sections, we present the latest research highlighting the potential for commercial video games to mitigate symptoms associated with the 2 most prevalent mental health disorders in the general population: anxiety and depression (refer to Table 1 for a summary). Table 1. Selected ...
Anxiety disorder is the most prevalent and frequently diagnosed disorder in youth, and associated with serious negative health outcomes. Our most effective
Video games can develop your creativity and problem-solving skills, but that’s not all they can do. These games also help me to relieve stress and anxiety.
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Pine, R., Fleming, T., McCallum, S. & Sutcliffe, K. The effects of casual videogames on anxiety, depression, stress, and low mood: a systematic review.Games Health J.9, 255–264 (2020). PubMedGoogle Scholar Yilmaz, E., Yel, S. & Griffiths, M. The impact of heavy (excessive) ...
Thirty-four studies were eligible for meta-analyses. Interactive video games appear to reduce children's procedural pain (standardised mean difference [SMD]=–0.43; 95% confidence interval [CI]: –0.67 to –0.20), anxiety (SMD=0.61; 95% CI: –0.88 to –0.34), and caregivers' procedural ...
Most gamers report that playing video games—even violent games—is away to relieve stressand enjoy playing with friends. Some evidence has even found that many commercially available video games can be helpful in the treatment of mental health conditions such as anxiety and depression.1 ...