After all, spending hours playing PlayStation is not bad for your health

Experts say that this hobby does not interfere with luxury, although it is not natural to feel the need to play.

Good news for fans of this hobby.

If you are part of the group of people who get anxious when they see their siblings, friends, or friends hooking up to consoles, you can relax. According to a new study published on Wednesday, July 27, by the University of Oxford, time spent playing video games does not have a significant impact on players’ well-being or mental health.

“We found little or no evidence of a causal relationship between video games and well-being,” read the results of the research, which analyzed nearly 40,000 gamers over the age of 18 for six weeks. search published The journal “The Royal Society Open Science” generally allays concerns that the habit of playing games on a computer or console negatively affects the well-being and mental health of lovers of this hobby.

To study the effects of this relationship, players were asked about the emotions they experience in their daily lives, including their level of happiness, sadness, anger, or frustration. In addition to the surveys conducted, the researchers used time data provided by the creators of seven video games, such as “Animal Crossing”, “Forza Horizon 4” or “The Crew 2”.

Although the conclusions are that this hobby interferes with mental health, experts say it is not normal for them to feel the need to play. “If players feel compelled to play, they feel worse. If they play for fun, the data does not indicate that it affects their mental health. It appears to give them a strong positive feeling,” says Andrew K. Przybylski, one of the study’s authors. , indicates that a cause-and-effect association cannot be determined, because the consequences of gaming, whether positive or negative, will only be noticeable if a video game user plays more than ten hours a day.

This is the Monday Research, which has been done in recent months, which states that playing console does not have as many harms as one might think. In an interview with NiT, psychologist Rute Agulhas already explained: “When used in a responsible and healthy way, the benefits of video games can be very diverse, as they stimulate the brain, increase flexibility, learning, attention and focus.”

The latest research therefore conflicts with the classification made by the World Health Organization in 2018, which considered video game disorders to be a mental health problem.