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Gaming addiction across 12 countries: boys vs. girls, international differences, and the position of Czech adolescents
Almost every teenager plays video games today, and for most of them it is a form of entertainment, a place to meet friends, or a way to relax after school. For a smaller proportion of players, however, gaming can begin to affect their sleep, schoolwork, or relationships. But are there differences between boys and girls? And which symptoms appear most often in which country? A large international study led by Andrea Stašek and Lukas Blinka from the Institute for Psychological Research sought answers to these questions. The team compared unique data from more than 44,000 adolescents from 12 European countries and focused on how they manifest symptoms of problematic online gaming.
