Video gaming may be beneficial to mental and cognitive health after all
Lange Zeit hatte Videospielen im Mainstream kein gutes Image und wurden entweder belächelt oder als Sucht abgetan. Manche Politiker wollten oder wollen sogar Video-Games verbieten, da sie potentiell schädlich für Jugendliche sein.
Mittlerweile scheint sich diese Ansicht aber zumindest wissenschaftlich etwas zu wandeln und das Thema wird differenzierter gesehen.
Sicherlich gibt es nach wie vor Risiken, aber Gaming scheint auch einen positive Impact nicht nur auf die Reaktionszeit, sondern auch auf die mentale und kognitive Gesundheit zu haben. Kommt wie immer auf viele Faktoren darauf an, welche Games man zockt, wie lange, etc. aber insgesamt klingt diese Annahme plausibel.
Was sagt ihr dazu? Denkt ihr, dass Gaming viel mehr größeren positiven Impact hat als bisher vom Mainstream angenommen?
https://x.com/BrandonLuuMD/status/2099226796893798645
Characterizing the cognitive and mental health benefits of exercise and video game playing
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0334924
English
For a long time, video games didn’t have a good image in the mainstream and were either ridiculed or dismissed as an addiction. Some politicians even wanted, or still want, to ban video games because they are potentially harmful to young people.
In the meantime, however, this view seems to be shifting somewhat, at least from a scientific perspective, and the topic is now viewed in a more nuanced way.
Sure, there are still risks, but gaming also seems to have a positive impact not only on reaction time but also on mental and cognitive health. As always, it depends on many factors, what games you play, for how long, etc. but overall, this assumption sounds plausible.
What do you think? Do you think gaming has a much greater positive impact than the mainstream has previously assumed?
"auch auf die mentale und kognitive Gesundheit".
Im Abstract steht aber, dass Gaming nicht die mental health verbessert, sondern nur die cognitive performance (bei körperlichem Training war´s umgekehrt). Ein kleiner, aber wichtiger Unterschied.
I believe that the game is better for good old people than sudoku table
I made for my studies, a 20 pages thing about games and microtransaction in games, basically what happens to some people that end up depressed or addicted to games, well its not really the games themselves that are addicting its just that in a lot of cases people are isolated socially/having other problems in life and thus have an excessive use of the video games -> these people tend to also smoke/drink/etc or replace it by playing games.
(little addon for the video games is benefical to mental health, in case someone says you can get addcited to it)