William Atkins
Saturday, 24 January 2009 20:32
Science -
Health
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A Brigham Young University study has concluded that daily use of video games by young adults produces poorer relationships with friends and family.
Dr. Laura Walker and undergraduate student Alex Jenson, both from Brigham Young University (
BYU), in Provo. Utah, studied 813 college students from around the United States.
Jenson is, himself, a video game player. He was hoping to find positive results from the study.
However, he was disappointed with what they found.
They asked the young particpants different questions about how often they played video games, along with questions on relationships such as how much time they spent with friends and family and how much support and affection they received from their parents.
Their conclusions were published in the January 23, 2009 issue of the
Journal of Youth and Adolescence.
Their research is part of an ongoing survey called
Project Ready , which studies how U.S. young adults are transitioning from adolescence to adulthood.
According to the Project Ready website,
“Project READY is a collaborative effort by scholars at several universities across the nation to better understand the attitudes and behaviors of young people.”
Page two includes comments from Dr. Walker.
