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Study Finds 1 in 10 Young Gamers Exhibit Addiction to Video Games
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A recent study by developmental psychologist and Iowa State University assistant professor Douglas A. Gentile has found that out of a randomly selected sample of American youths aged 8 to 18, one in ten exhibited signs of video game addiction, a problem that may cause health issues and interferes with school performance and relationships with friends and family.

"What's most concerning to me is really the total percentage, just the vast number of kids that are having real problems in their lives because they play games, and they may not know how to stop it," said Gentile in an article on HealthDay. "I think we're at the same place now with video gaming as we were with alcoholism 40 years ago."

Dr. Gentile began studying video game addiction in 1999 and is also the research director for the National Institute on Media and the Family. For more information on the study, see the article in HealthDay.
 
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