Background: Excessive use of the Internet has been associated with attention deficit hyperactivity
disorder (ADHD), but the relationship between video games and ADHD symptoms in adolescents
is unknown.
Method: A survey of adolescents and parents (n = 72 adolescents, 72 parents) was performed
assessing daily time spent on the Internet, television, console video games, and Internet video
games, and their association with academic and social functioning. Subjects were high school
students in the ninth and tenth grade. Students were administered a modified Young's Internet
Addiction Scale (YIAS) and asked questions about exercise, grades, work, and school detentions.
Parents were asked to complete the Conners' Parent Rating Scale (CPRS) and answer questions
regarding medical/psychiatric conditions in their child.
Results: There was a significant association between time spent playing games for more than one
hour a day and YIAS (p < 0.001), overall grade point average (p ≤ 0.019), and the "Inattention" and
"ADHD" components of the CPRS (p ≤ 0.001 and p ≤ 0.020, respectively). No significant
association was found between body mass index (BMI), exercise, number of detentions, or the
"Oppositional" and "Hyperactivity" components of CPRS and video game use.
Conclusion: Adolescents who play more than one hour of console or Internet video games may
have more or more intense symptoms of ADHD or inattention than those who do not. Given the
possible negative effects these conditions may have on scholastic performance, the added
consequences of more time spent on video games may also place these individuals at increased risk
for problems in school.
Background: Excessive use of the Internet has been associated with attention deficit hyperactivity
disorder (ADHD), but the relationship between video games and ADHD symptoms in adolescents
is unknown.
Method: A survey of adolescents and parents (n = 72 adolescents, 72 parents) was performed
assessing daily time spent on the Internet, television, console video games, and Internet video
games, and their association with academic and social functioning. Subjects were high school
students in the ninth and tenth grade. Students were administered a modified Young's Internet
Addiction Scale (YIAS) and asked questions about exercise, grades, work, and school detentions.
Parents were asked to complete the Conners' Parent Rating Scale (CPRS) and answer questions
regarding medical/psychiatric conditions in their child.
Results: There was a significant association between time spent playing games for more than one
hour a day and YIAS (p < 0.001), overall grade point average (p ≤ 0.019), and the "Inattention" and
"ADHD" components of the CPRS (p ≤ 0.001 and p ≤ 0.020, respectively). No significant
association was found between body mass index (BMI), exercise, number of detentions, or the
"Oppositional" and "Hyperactivity" components of CPRS and video game use.
Conclusion: Adolescents who play more than one hour of console or Internet video games may
have more or more intense symptoms of ADHD or inattention than those who do not. Given the
possible negative effects these conditions may have on scholastic performance, the added
consequences of more time spent on video games may also place these individuals at increased risk
for problems in school.
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