{"id":974,"date":"2025-02-04T16:42:53","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/20\/video-games-improve-mental-health-for-players-of-all-ages\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T16:42:53","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:53","slug":"video-games-improve-mental-health-for-players-of-all-ages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/video-games-improve-mental-health-for-players-of-all-ages\/","title":{"rendered":"Video games improve mental health for players of all ages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2024-08-20 15:00:25<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Playing video games is beneficial for a person&#8217;s mental health.<BR><br \/>\nConsoles are often associated with negative health effects &#8211; particularly for children &#8211; due to concerns that they can prevent development and socialisation but a new study suggests that gaming has a positive impact on the mental well-being of individuals of all ages.<BR><br \/>\nDue to a shortage of consoles in Japan between 2020 and 2022, retailers in the country used lotteries to assign a PlayStation 5 or Nintendo Switch to citizens aged between 10 and 69.<BR><br \/>\nAnalysis from experts at Nihon University in Tokyo revealed that owning a console and playing games on it improved mental health, although those who gamed for over three hours per day did not experience the same benefits.<BR><br \/>\nThe researchers said: &#8220;Through a natural experimental approach, we demonstrated that winning a lottery for a Switch or PS5 positively impacted mental well-being for individuals aged 10-69 in Japan.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;All our estimates indicated positive correlations between video gaming and life satisfaction &#8211; a finding that, while counterintuitive given certain public perceptions around gaming, is consistent with recent studies.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangpremier.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Visit Bang Premier (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024-08-20 15:00:25 Playing video games is beneficial for a person&#8217;s mental health. Consoles are often associated with negative health effects &#8211; particularly for children &#8211; due to concerns that they&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":716,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":975,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions\/975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}