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A new disorder
The World Health Organization officially added a new disorder to the section on substance use and addictive behaviors : “gaming disorder”
A gaming disorder is defined as an overly and uncontainable preoccupation with video games — the obsession results in significant personal, social, academic or occupational impairment for at least 12 months.
However, the idea that someone can be addicted to a behavior, as opposed to a substance, remains contentious.
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The term "addiction"
Addiction can include:
- Addiction as a moral transgression, like excessive drinking or drug use.
- Addiction as a scientific disease, which characterize alcoholism and drug addiction as biological.
- Colloquial violation, which applies the term to almost any fixation.
The idea that someone can be addicted to a behavior, as opposed to a substance, remains debatable.
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Arguments against gaming addiction
- Excessive gameplay is a symptom of a larger problem, like anxiety or depression.
- The fear of possible addiction arrises from moral panic about new technologies, not scientific research or clinical data.
- Making excessive gaming a disorder can harm the gaming industry by stigmatizing their products.
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A new framework for Addiction
Experts refer to addiction as a complex behavioral disorder that joins biology, psychology, social environment and culture.
Addiction is now defined as a compulsive engagement in a rewarding experience despite severe consequences.
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Video games are a social problem
- 2+ billion people worldwide play video games
- A typical gamer in the US spends 12 hours playing each week.
- 60% of gamers neglect sleep to keep playing.
- 40% of gamers have missed a meal.
- In 2018, people worldwide spent a collective nine billion hours watching other people play video games on a streaming service.
- South Korea passed a Shutdown Law in 2011, which prevents anyone under 16 from playing games online between midnight and 6 a.m.
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Why video games feel so addictive
- Video games are alternate realities. We experience great satisfaction from our gaming achievements. When compared, real-life seems so much harder and less gratifying.
- Video games sometimes provide the guise of genuine social connection. In reality, it can push someone into a dangerously secluded way of life.
- In games, there are rules and defined goals. Progress is quantified. There are no real-world consequences of failure. In essence, gamers gain a sense of inflated purpose and accomplishment. By contrast, the real world seems mostly bland, and self-worth can be difficult to obtain.
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Video games are designed to be addictive
With the help of hired scientists, game developers have employed many psychological techniques to make their products as unquittable as possible.
- First, players are enticed with easy and predictable rewards.
- To keep players interested, many games employ a strategy called intermittent reinforcement, in which players are surprised with rewards at random intervals.
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