PLAYING FOR 37.5 HOURS A WEEK 9% of kids are gaming addicts

• Clivebenss

  8 Dec 10, 11:04

  Dec 8, 2010 - Straits Times

  NEARLY 9 per cent of young people in Singapore are 'pathological gamers' - addicts who spend hours playing video games, and whose schoolwork and social skills suffer as a result.

  They play for about 37.5 hours each week, double the 18.8 hours spent by non-addicts on such games, according to a recent study funded by the Education Ministry and Media Development Authority.

  Pathological gamers are also more likely to have poorer social skills, suffer from hand and wrist pain, sleep too little and face problems in school.

  For example, they may neglect doing homework, said the study helmed by Dr Angeline Khoo of the National Institute of Education (NIE).

  Researchers from NIE, the National University of Singapore, Iowa State University and Hong Kong Polytechnic University were roped in to conduct the study. The findings were published in Annals, a journal by the Academy of Medicine here.

  Nearly 3,000 primary and secondary schoolchildren took part in the study, which was conducted from June last year to September this year.

  POON CHIAN HUI

• dechang

  8 Dec 10, 11:06

  so we work 40 hours a week.

  does that make us work addicts?

• Clivebenss

  8 Dec 10, 11:26

  not only kids but adults too.

  

• BaByBoY

  8 Dec 10, 11:39

  i slp more than 50 hours a week..

  does it make me a slp addict?

  keke

• dechang

  8 Dec 10, 11:45

  I masterbate more than 40 hours a week. does that make me a sex addict?

• PedoBear

  8 Dec 10, 13:01

  Originally posted by dechang:

  I masterbate more than 40 hours a week. does that make me a sex addict?

  
  no just a masterbating addict

  if you have sex for more than 40 hours a week then you are a sex addict

• Toiletries

  8 Dec 10, 13:46

  Survey a little flawed. The REAL gaming addicts skipped school on that day to get that precious 0.1% levelling experience.

• Pure Emptiness

  8 Dec 10, 13:48

  Many game addicts buying acash at comics commention.

• Zweiz

  8 Dec 10, 13:51

  i think i clocked 37.5 hours on weekends alone in my poly days, so i'd say these kids are getting softer

• dechang

  8 Dec 10, 13:58

  never trust any articles published by our govt. they are all part of PAP propaganda

• Call4ljw

  8 Dec 10, 17:10

  In the past, i clocked like over 40 hours a week on games but i'm not an addict.

  And the game is maplestory and i quit already.

• Zweiz

  8 Dec 10, 17:52

  Originally posted by Call4ljw:

  In the past, i clocked like over 40 hours a week on games but i'm not an addict.

  oxymoron?

• Call4ljw

  10 Dec 10, 14:23

  Originally posted by Zweiz:

  oxymoron?

  lol nope.

  Dont go around guessing name just because someone said maplestory lol.

• elindra

  10 Dec 10, 16:09

  37.5 hrs a week is on the low side for addicts

• Essential2468

  10 Dec 10, 16:14

  should jio them come to sgforum. then improve english & singlish.