Gaming addiction and its effects on mental health

Authors

  • Vidhi Tandon Trainer, Dep. Of Psychology, Lucknow University, UP, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/%2010.25215/0803.025

Keywords:

Internet Gaming Disorder, Mental Health, Players Unknown Battlegrounds (PUBG), PubG

Abstract

The overarching goal of the video games is to supply the end-users by denotes of interactive systems that square measure currently existent across varied platforms like laptop computer, mobile phones, tablets and game consoles. Player unknown’s battlegrounds (PUBG) may be a multiplayer on-line game. The addiction of PUBG is soaring worldwide and it’s thick user-base. It’s recommended that inhuman attitudes like lack of fellow feeling and war-related sentiments square measure seemingly to emerge among youngsters World Health Organization play aggressive and violent games like PUBG. World health organisation (who) acknowledged on-line play compulsion as a grave musculature health quandary. A number of the well-known repercussions of enjoying PUBG computer game square measure ocular perceivers strain, exhaustion, headache, obesity, poor quality of slumber, insomnia, withdrawal symptoms (rage and irritability) and even substance abuse as a result of compulsive disorder. This game craze is haplessly triggering world’s adolescent population to speculate their valuable juncture, mazuma and energy in an exceedingly no-return business, and consequently desires imperative measures.

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Published

2022-11-05

How to Cite

Vidhi Tandon. (2022). Gaming addiction and its effects on mental health. International Journal of Indian Psychȯlogy, 8(3). https://doi.org/ 10.25215/0803.025