Article ; Online: Gaming among Children and Adolescents during the COVID-19 Lockdown: The Role of Parents in Time Spent on Video Games and Gaming Disorder Symptoms.
International journal of environmental research and public health
2021 Volume 18, Issue 12
Abstract: ... to their offspring's time spent on video games and GD symptoms. A web-based survey involving parents ( ... It is mainly children and adolescents who are involved in video gaming. The lockdown caused ... To fill this gap, the current study aims to analyze video gaming habits in children and adolescents during ...
| Abstract | It is mainly children and adolescents who are involved in video gaming. The lockdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic may have further increased their use of video games and, consequently, the risk of gaming disorder (GD) symptoms. However, currently, we do not have exhaustive knowledge of this issue. To fill this gap, the current study aims to analyze video gaming habits in children and adolescents during the lockdown, starting in March 2020 in Italy, the first European country affected by the pandemic. Specifically, we aim to understand how variables related to parents-for instance, knowledge of their offspring's life, the monitoring of their video gaming habits, and parental use of video games-are related to their offspring's time spent on video games and GD symptoms. A web-based survey involving parents ( |
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| MeSH term(s) | Adolescent ; Behavior, Addictive/epidemiology ; COVID-19 ; Child ; Communicable Disease Control ; Europe ; Female ; Humans ; Italy ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Pandemics ; SARS-CoV-2 ; Video Games |
| Language | English |
| Publishing date | 2021-06-21 |
| Publishing country | Switzerland |
| Document type | Journal Article |
| ISSN | 1660-4601 |
| ISSN (online) | 1660-4601 |
| DOI | 10.3390/ijerph18126642 |
| Database | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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