National study finds nearly 1 in 10 youth gamers addicted to video games
Monday, April 20, 2009 - 11:28
in Psychology & Sociology
Parents have been saying for years that their kids are "addicted" to video games, but a new study by an Iowa State University psychology professor is the first to actually report that pathological patterns of video game addiction exist in a national sample of youth, aged 8 to 18.
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