Re:Show HN: Beat video game addiction
by p1necone on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @06:22PM
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Some of the questions seem a bit silly to me, and not really indicative of anything negative.
Of course becoming engaged in one hobby (gaming) would cause you to become less engaged in other hobbies you may have. I don't see why this is bad.
Yup, that's kinda what hobbies are for (partially). Imagine replacing gaming with say - cooking, or watching old westerns - does the scenario presented in the question still seem sinister to you?
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Re:Show HN: Beat video game addiction
by camerondare on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @09:45PM
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A single yes to one question isn't necessarily indicative of a problem - it's the combination (for the DSM proposed criteria it's 5 or more of 9) that creates the pattern and may show a problem. These questions are from the Gentile Scale of Internet Gaming Disorder (published in the APA) with a few adjustments based on other research (such as King's paper on Tolerance.)