Farchakh Youssef, Haddad Chadia, Sacre Hala, Obeid Sahar, Salameh Pascale, Hallit Souheil
Faculty of Medicine and Medical Sciences, Holy Spirit University of Kaslik (USEK), Jounieh, Lebanon.
Research and Psychology Departments, Psychiatric Hospital of the Cross, P.O. Box 60096, Jal Eddib, Lebanon.
Child Adolesc Psychiatry Ment Health. 2020 Dec 12;14(1):46. doi: 10.1186/s13034-020-00353-3.
Examining whether any association exists between addiction to video games and cognitive abilities in children could inform ongoing prevention and management of any possible harm. The objective of this study was to investigate the associations between addiction to video games, and memory, attention and learning abilities among a sample of Lebanese school children.
This cross-sectional study, conducted between January and May 2019, enrolled 566 school children aged between 9 and 13 years. Three private schools were chosen conveniently for this study. Students were randomly chosen from the list given by the school administration. The students' parents are those who responded to the questionnaire.
The results showed that higher addiction to video gaming salience was significantly associated with worse episodic memory, problem solving, basic reading skills, written expression skills and worse clinical attention. Higher addiction to video gaming tolerance were significantly associated with worse novel problem solving and worse attention. Higher addiction to video gaming withdrawal were significantly associated with worse attention, factual memory, attention, processing speed, visual spatial organization, sustained sequential processing, working memory, novel problem solving and worse written expression skills.
The results suggest a correlation between addiction to video games and worse memory, attention, as well as cognitive and academic abilities among school children. Those findings indicate the need for more extensive research, and serve to highlight vital next steps needed in future papers, such as identifying predicting factors that could aid in early detection of video gaming addiction in children.
研究儿童视频游戏成瘾与认知能力之间是否存在关联，可为当前对任何可能危害的预防和管理提供依据。本研究的目的是调查黎巴嫩学童样本中视频游戏成瘾与记忆、注意力和学习能力之间的关联。
这项横断面研究于2019年1月至5月进行，招募了566名年龄在9至13岁之间的学童。本研究方便选取了三所私立学校。学生从学校管理部门提供的名单中随机选取。学生的家长是那些回复问卷的人。
结果显示，视频游戏显著性成瘾程度较高与情景记忆较差、解决问题能力较差、基本阅读技能较差、书面表达能力较差以及临床注意力较差显著相关。视频游戏耐受性成瘾程度较高与新颖问题解决能力较差和注意力较差显著相关。视频游戏戒断成瘾程度较高与注意力较差、事实性记忆较差、注意力较差、处理速度较慢、视觉空间组织能力较差、持续顺序处理能力较差、工作记忆较差、新颖问题解决能力较差以及书面表达能力较差显著相关。
结果表明，学童视频游戏成瘾与较差的记忆、注意力以及认知和学业能力之间存在相关性。这些发现表明需要进行更广泛的研究，并有助于突出未来论文中需要采取的重要后续步骤，例如确定有助于早期发现儿童视频游戏成瘾的预测因素。
