The number of hours a person spends playing video games doesn’t affect their well-being, but their motivation for playing is likely to have an influence, a new study has found. While fears over the effects of playing video games for extended periods are often bandied around, this research flies in the face of those casual concerns. Tracking the playtime time of nearly 40,000 participants across seven games, including Animal Cross: New Horizons and Outriders, the University of Oxford study (opens in new tab) found no causal link between time spent gaming and a person’s mental health.
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