COMPUTER

GAMING
ADDICTION
COMPUTER GAMING
ADDICTION
• Meaning
• Symptoms
• Positive Effects
• Negative Effects
• The Entertainment Software Rating Board
(ESRB)
• Tips on managing your child's media
consumption
 MEANING

• Video game addiction, or more broadly video game overuse.

• It is excessive or compulsive use of computer and video

games that interferes with daily life.

• Playing compulsively, isolating themselves from family and

friends or from other forms of social contact, and focus
almost entirely on in-game achievements rather than other
life events.
SYMPTOMS
Psychological Symptoms

Most non-school hours are spent on the computer

or playing video games

Falling asleep in school

Falling behind with assignments

Worsening grades
Lying About Computer or Video Game Use

Choosing to Use The Computer or Play Video

Games, Rather Than See Friends

Dropping Out of Other Social Groups (clubs or

sports)

Being Irritable When Not Playing a Video Game or

Being on the Computer
• Physical Symptoms

• Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

• Sleep Disturbances

• Backaches or Neck Aches

• Headaches

• Dry eyes and Failure to eat Regularly or Neglecting

Personal Hygiene
POSITIVE EFFECTS
• Following Instructions

• Problem Solving and Logic

• Hand-eye Coordination, Fine Motor and Spatial Skills.

• Resource Management and Logistics.

• Multitasking, Simultaneous racking of many shifting variables and

managing multiple objectives.

• Quick thinking, making fast analysis and decisions.

• Teamwork and cooperation

NEGATIVE EFFECTS
• Violence and Aggression

• Effects Academic Achievement

• Teach Wrong Values

• Bad Health Effects

The Entertainment Software Rating
Board (ESRB)

• The ESRB is a self-regulatory body established in 1994 by

the Interactive Digital Software Association (IDSA).

• It Rates all the computer Games.

• It considers the amount of violence, sex, controversial

language and substance abuse found in a game.
CATEGORIES OF RATING
• Early Childhood (EC)

• Everyone (E)

• Teen (T)

• Mature (M)

• Adults Only (AO)

Tips on Managing Your Child's
Media Consumption
• Know the rating of the video games your child plays

• Do not install video game equipment in your child's bedroom

• Set limits on how often and how long your child is allowed to play
video games.

• Monitor all of your child's media consumption -- video

games, television, movies and Internet.

• Supervise your child's Internet use -- there are now many "video
games" available for playing online.

• Share with other parents information about certain games or ideas

for helping each other in parenting.
POINTS COVERED
• Meaning

• Symptoms

• Positive Effects

• Negative Effects

• The Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB)

• Tips on managing your child's media consumption