ScottDogGaming: Poor behaviour in children not linked to violent video games, study finds

By contact@videogamer.com (David Scammell)

Time spent playing has a greater impact than the type of games played.

According to research carried out by the University of Oxford, children who play games for more than three hours a day “are more likely to be hyperactive, get involved in fights and not be interested in school”.

But that isn’t a result of playing violent video games, the university suggests, who says that it could not find any link “between playing violent games and real-life aggression or a child’s academic performance”.

Meanwhile, playing video games for under an hour a day may actually help improve children’s abilities to socialise, with those who play games with…

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