If you are in the middle of any online game and you asked to quit, you may agree to it but the same is not true in the case of gambling. As per the latest study conducted on online gaming and gambling habits, It is never easy to quit gambling which is a more severe addiction as compared to online gaming.
“Internet games are currently one of the most popular leisure activities but we can’t leap to conclusions and assume that if 160 million people play them, one million of them might be addicted,” said lead author Andrew Przybylski, from the University of Oxford.
“Contrary to what was predicted, the study did not find a clear link between potential addiction and negative effects on health,” Przybylski added. For the study, researchers from the University of Oxford surveyed 19,000 men and women from the UK, the US, Canada and Germany. Over half of the sample said they had played internet games recently. Of these, between 2 per cent and 3 per cent reported they had experienced five or more of the symptoms on the list, with between 1 per cent and 0.5 per cent saying they also had feelings of ‘significant distress’ in being unable to curb their play.