The positive feelings that the addictive substance provides during and after its use are a reason for the person to continue using that substance. The addictive substance leaves the individual with pleasant feelings or makes the negative feelings disappear. For this reason, the good feeling that comes immediately after use is seen as more important than the negative consequences of addiction. If we evaluate this in the process of playing computer games a lot and creating addiction, we can think of it as the continuation of the use of the visual stimuli of the game as a result of the physiological pleasant feeling created in the body. He/she feels a physiological relief during and after playing the game. These types of relaxing feelings felt after playing the game cause the gaming behavior to be repeated over and over again and become a habit and even addiction.
* The person feels better in front of the computer.
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*Spends more time playing games.
* Moves away from family and friends.
* Becomes restless and angry when away from the computer.
Like this. Seeing these situations shows us that the 'Game Addiction' alarm bell is ringing. Another important issue is the content of the games. We see that playing violent games causes serious problems in children and adolescents. For example,
“If there are many violent scenes in the game and there is a reward for the violence applied in the game, it causes the brain, which acts with the pleasure principle, to become addicted to the game. The brain that wants to experience pleasure becomes inclined towards violence. The idea of waiting or postponing gratification causes anxiety in the child and creates a feeling of fear. When children play or watch violent games at a time when they are receiving love from their parents, their tendency to aggression increases. At the same time, violent games cause children to tend to violence in their daily lives, and these children enjoy aggression. These games provide not only violence but also satisfaction of ambition and happiness. If a child who plays strategy-based war and violence games is successful in that game, he will experience the feeling of winning and be happy. child a In fact, he achieves this in an automatic computer environment without much effort.
However, in daily life, happiness is something that most of us achieve less often and requires effort. It is much easier to have this feeling in games, and for this reason, children's gaming behavior is reinforced. If the child is not successful in the game, he gets very ambitious and tries again. If he fails, he tries again... A child who is rejected by the game by seeing the "game over" sign every time will feel anger in addition to a generally damaging emotion such as ambition. Because rejection results in anger.
Anger creates an ambition to succeed again, and this vicious cycle continues for the sake of the happiness hormone. This is the real process underlying game addiction.
Other harmful effects of violent computer games can be listed as follows:
*Feelings of hostility. It feeds and causes an increase in the level of anxiety.
*These games lead to an increase in the use of physical force. It causes more aggressive reactions to unhappy events in daily life.
*There is a decrease in social behavior.
*As the time spent with violent games increases, the risk of obesity also increases.
>*As the time spent in front of the computer increases, academic success decreases.
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