The study, published in Nature Human Behaviour, was carried out by a team of health, behavior, and economic specialists in Japan. The aim was to discover the.
In brief: Despite being more socially acceptable today than ever before, being a gamer can still carry a stigma associated with the stereotype of the unstable loner who never leaves their room. But a new study has shown what most of us already knew: that gaming can be good for your mental health.
The study, published in Nature Human Behaviour, was carried out by a team of health, behavior, and economic specialists in Japan. The aim was to discover the mental health impact of playing video games.
In 2018, the World Health Organization officially classified Gaming Disorder as a mental condition. It’s an important topic in Japan, where the condition is sometimes linked to hikikomori, a severe example of social withdrawal where people, usually young men, isolate themselves in their bedrooms for months or years at a time.
The research was carried out during the height of the Covid pandemic, between 2020 and 2022, involving 97,602 people between the ages of 10 and 69 in Japan.
