Study: computer game addicts exhibit certain Asperger syndrome characteristics |
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It's interesting what eye-opening findings psychological studies come up with sometimes. On one hand, you have studies disputing the link between video game violence and aggression. Other studies such as the one conducted by Dr. John Charlton and Ian Danforth, however, have found something else: computer game addicts share some personality traits with people with Asperger Syndrome (AS).How exactly did Charlton and Danforth find out? Simple: they questioned 391 computer game players, 86% of which were male. The researchers considered the relationship between addiction, personality, and what the social scientists termed as "high engagement."
Charlton and Danforth discovered three personality traits in addicted players that are normally associated with people with AS: neuroticism, lack of extraversion and lack of agreeableness.
Nevertheless, the researchers clarified that these gamers are not classifiable as having Asperger syndrome per se; rather, they merely share some of the same characteristics as those who do have it. This is because the gamers find it easier to empathize with computer systems rather than with other people.
According to Dr. Charlton, one may think of gamers lying somewhere along a spectrum:
The thinking in the field is that there is a scale along which people, even those considered to be ‘normal’, can be placed upon. And that people such as engineers, mathematicians and computer scientists are nearer to the non-empathising, systemising, end of the spectrum, with people with Aspergers syndrome even further along again.
Our research supports the idea that people who are heavily involved in game playing may be nearer to autistic spectrum disorders than people who have no interest in gaming.
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Asperger's Syndrome sufferers exhibit characteristics of video game addiction.
I play games only because I am addicted to violence =P
this sounds like it might be rather contrived, that just because someone has dealt with "systems" and proceses of logical progression, does not make them deficient
although the irony here is that by disagreeing with them I can be put into that group even more now
but that in ur psych pipe and smoke it!
I hope Derek Stiles can cure me...
I hope Derek Smart can still cure me...
Battlecruiser 3000AD anyone? most broken game series ever. Not to mention DS is a posterboy for "Ass-burgers" himself, the way he hates his fans.
If this is a new strain of Stigma, he can.
You guys like you some Trauma centre dont you?
Yup.
My brother has AS and you are saying he is not normal like it is a bad thing. As if people with AS are some distant creature. How misunderstood. These "Doctors" really need to go back to basics and not classify a "normal". What *****s.
Having Aspberger's Syndrome is not suffering. But, we do act like video-game addicts. sometimes. But, thats just because i am a game addict with aspberger's