A decade-long study of over 11,000 children in the UK has found no association between playing video games from as young as five, and mood or behavioural problems in later life.
Originally published in theBritish Medical Journal(viaGames and Learning), the findings were part of the UK Millennium Cohort Study and sought to explore how exposure to screen entertainment affected children’s psychosocial development.
The key findings that came out of the study included that exposure to video games from the age of five was shown to have no effect on behaviour, attention or emotional issues. Neither television nor video games caused attentional or emotional problems and there was no difference between boys and girls in the survey results.
