The Association between Online Gaming, Social Phobia, and Depression: an Internet Survey Full Text
BMC Psychiatry, 07/31/2012
Clinical Article
Wei HT et al. – The online gamers with longer weekly gaming hours tended to have a longer history of online gaming, and more severe depressive, social phobic, and internet addiction symptoms. Female online gamers had fewer weekly online gaming hours and a shorter previous online gaming history, but tended to have more severe somatic, pain, and social phobic symptoms. The predictors for depression were higher social phobic symptom, higher internet addiction symptoms, longer online gaming hours, and female gender.



