Psychiatria pre prax 2/2011

Computer games, consequences to life of young person

In the work, authors found out relatively big amount and frequency of computer gambling in the population of secondary school youth in Slovak republic. There are prevailing several combinations of preffered computer games in the list of respondents. Analyses of some negative consequences of playing computer games in Slovakia are similar to analyses in foreign works. They found out, that excesive computer-games players which are playing more than 3 hours a day are suffering by some symptoms of addicting behaviour.

Keywords: computer games, negative consequences, excesive computer-games players.