The Negative Effects of Video Games Interview

An elementary school student named “Zoey” had a number of questions that she asked Dr. Lazarus about video games and their effects on children.
Here are his answers (Audio).

video game addiction transcript

For school, I have a project where I need to research the negative effects of video games. I was wondering if you could answer a few of the questions I have:

• What is the main/most common effect/s of children becoming addicted to video games?

• How are children’s social lives negatively impacted by video games?

• What do video games do to negatively affect children’s mental health

• What do video games do to affect children physically?

• What is the main problem the children you see have as a result of playing video games?

• What do you do to help children recover from video game addiction?

• Do most children who are addicted to video games end up recovering?

• What is the main negative difference between children who play video games to children who don’t?

• What do you think a good time limit for playing video games would be?

• Do the children playing violent video games that you see tend to be more aggressive than the average child?