Game on? Video-game ownership may interfere with young boys' academic functioning
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 - 17:14
in Mathematics & Economics
According to new findings, owning a video-game system may hamper academic development in some children. Boys who received a video-game system immediately had significantly lower reading and writing scores after four months than boys receiving a video-game system at the end of the experiment. Further analysis revealed that the time spent playing video games may link the relationship between owning a video-game system and reading and writing scores.
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