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Study finds insufficient evidence of gaming as a clinical disorder – Research suggests obsessive gamers likely to be suffering from wider issues
According to research conducted by Oxford University, in partnership with Cardiff University, there’s nothing clinically ‘wrong’ with obsessive gamers. Rather than being negatively impacted by gaming itself, it’s suggested that young people who engage in dysfunctional gaming may be doing so in a bid to escape “underlying frustrations and wider psychosocial functioning issues”. It involved...