Three Percent of Adolescents & Children are Addicted to the WWW, at a Rate, Three Times More than England, U.S., and Germany

Let’s see what the “experts” have to say about this!  From the Front Page Sections, translated…

The National Sanitation Council investigated a total over 8,000 teens who’d played online games within the past year, and found that the online game addictions were at the rate of 3.1 percent.  Of them, fifty-two percent of the online game addicts spent around forty-one hours on average per week on online games, almost a time over than those who aren’t addicted to online gaming.

a graph found online, for those of you who needed a “visual”…

The WHO announced the listing of “online game addictions” into the psychological illnesses, the National Sanitation Office disclosed the result of the research conducted, this was the very first diagnosis of international standards, and the biggest research population sampling teens for their online game addictions, the findings were accepted by the “Behavioral Addictions Journal” this August.

The research surveyed a total of 8,110 teens ages 10 to 18 who’d played online video games in the past year, with the markers of “losing control”, “impairment of daily functions”, “lasting a year or more” as the standards, the research found, the rate of addiction in teens with online games is 3.1 percent.

The assistant researcher of the National Sanitation Office, Lin pointed out, the addiction is not related to the games themselves, but because the teens are having troubles in their realities, for instance, being bullied in school.

Last year, the collaborative research in the U.S., England, and Germany pointed out, there was only one-percent of the online games addiction.  The officials here suspected that this had more to do with how the western nations focused on the activities outdoors.

This addiction is rooted, way back in the childhood years, when you’d parked your kids in front of that iPad, that SmartPhone, to QUIET them down, so they don’t get fussy, and bug you, keep you from doing what you’re needing to do, and this has less of an effect in western nations because?  Oh yeah, the parents in those countries are more focused on taking their children outdoors to play, on the weekends, because the western parents cared a little MORE about spending quality time with their young, as they don’t do that enough on the weekdays!