Gamers are "likely" drunks and druggies

Saturday 24-Jan-2009 12:39 PM Scientists take another stab at gaming culture

www.cvg.co.uk

A US study has found that people who play games regularly are more likely to take drugs and drink alcohol than normal people. They could have saved a lot of time and money by just asking us though.

Professor Laura Walker, who led the study from Brigham Young University in Utah, said: "The most striking part is that everything we found clustered around video game use is negative." Makes you wonder if they actually tried to find anything positive.

Games are usually pinned with making idiotic (sorry... easily influenced) teens violent, but according Walker: "It appears video games are related to a host of other negative outcomes."

800 university students were questioned, and it found that students who played games regularly were 10 percent more likely to have a tipple or take drugs than their non-gaming friends.

Those who play daily are said to be three times more likely to smoke cannabis, stop talking to friends and family and, female gamers in particular, have low self esteem, according to the report published in the Journal of Youth and Adolescence (via the Telegraph).

"It may be that young adults remove themselves from important social settings to play video games, or that people who already struggle with relationships are trying to find other ways to spend their time," said Walker. "My guess is that it's some of both and becomes circular."

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sorry if already posted i thought this to be a funny article. ive not known anyone that acts like the report shows, mabey a few stories here and there thats all.

sorry

http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=57998

same story different source

I like having a few beers whilst gaming.
I dont see anything wrong with that.

hahhahahaha it's sooo true, well at least with me it is, though i'm just a drunk, no drugs here, but a drunk all the way, i'm drinking right now, i like drinking
anyone tried Wii Fit drunk, nothing better, and smash brothers brawl. wow talk about anger, phucking jiggly puff piece o crap

Isn't it normal for people to drink daily? Or if not daily, each weekend, worth for the whole week.
I wonder what kind of alcoholics the people in the study have been and i wonder even more, where they get all the money to stay drunk all day long, considering these are students without steady income.

Sorry, it's hard to read such a long article while snorting cocaine and playing Rock Band (I prefer to replicate the REAL experience).

sports athetes/actors/CEO/Presidents/Musician/Rockstar.

And Now GAMERS!!! F&*& YE*&*!!!

I don't drink or do drugs but I like playing games...what does that make me?

I play games, do drugs and see nothing wrong with either.

Correlation not causation.

Did they ever stop to think that young adults with low self esteem and poor social skills are more likely to do drugs, drink and play games? Gaming is a symptom not a cause.