Short video game play improves executive function in the oldest old living in residential care

McCord, Alex; Cocks, Bernadine; Barreiros, Ana Rita; Bizo, Lewis A.

doi:10.1016/j.chb.2020.106337

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“…Despite the many advantageous and beneficial effects gaming can have, [4][5][6] excessive and dysregulated engagement has been shown to be associated with poor psychological, social, and physical well-being. [7][8][9] As a result, in 2019, the World Health Organisation (WHO) officially recognised Gaming Disorder (GD) as a mental health condition in the eleventh revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11).…”

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Investigating the Role of Health Factors and Psychological Well-Being in Gaming Disorder

Moore

Satel

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2022

Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking

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The recent recognition of Gaming Disorder (GD) as a mental health issue has provided a unique opportunity for researchers to advance our current understanding of the intricate relationships between GD and specific health-related factors and well-being. The present study sought to investigate the role of key physical and psychological health and well-being factors in GD. To achieve this, the three goals were explored. First, we tested whether GD can be predicted by health and well-being factors such as depression, anxiety, loneliness, attention problems, physical health problems (PHP), and psychological well-being (PWB).Second, we assessed the role of distress tolerance (DT) as a moderator in the relationship between PWB and GD. Third, we examined whether PWB would mediate the relationship between PHP and GD. A sample of 474 participants (Meanage = 28.86 years; SD = 9.23; range: 18-66 years; 47% female) was recruited. The results of the multiple linear regression analysis indicated that age, attention problems, and PHP significantly predicted GD (R 2 = .15). Additionally, the mediation findings uncovered an important direct association between PHP and GD despite the lack of mediation effects through PWB and the absence of moderating effects from distress tolerance. The present findings signify important healthrelated implications related to GD that are further discussed here in terms diagnosis, treatment, and prevention efforts.

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Investigating the Role of Health Factors and Psychological Well-Being in Gaming Disorder

Moore

Satel

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2022

Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking

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“…These observations are in line with a meta-analysis showing improvements in inhibition, top-down attention, and multitasking/task-switching ( Bediou et al, 2018 ). Interestingly, improvements of EF can be seen in all age groups, including preschool children ( Yang et al, 2020 ) and the oldest old ( McCord et al, 2020 ). In conclusion, it seems very well established that video-gaming experience improves executive function abilities.…”

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Inter-Individual Differences in Executive Functions Predict Multitasking Performance – Implications for the Central Attentional Bottleneck

Szameitat

2022

Front. Psychol.

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Human multitasking suffers from a central attentional bottleneck preventing parallel performance of central mental operations, leading to profound deferments in task performance. While previous research assumed that the deferment is caused by a mere waiting time (refractory period), we show that the bottleneck requires executive functions (EF; active scheduling account) accounting for a profound part of the deferment. Three participant groups with EF impairments (dyslexics, highly neurotics, deprived smokers) showed worse multitasking performance than respective control groups. Three further groups with EF improvements (video-gamers, bilinguals, coffee consumers) showed improved multitasking. Finally, three groups performed a dual-task and different measures of EF (reading span, rotation span, symmetry span) and showed significant correlations between multitasking performance and working memory capacity. Demands on EF during multitasking may cause more errors, mental fatigue and stress, with parts of the population being considerably more prone to this.

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“…In these games, players may also have to face puzzle-solving and exploration challenges (Adams, 2006). Action video games appear to yield substantial positive influence on cognition (McCord et al, 2020) due to their neuropsychological properties (Bediou et al, 2018): i) the non-linear, fast pace (which stimulates a quick motor response in the player); ii) the perceptual burden (which positively affects working memory and planning abilities); iii) the continuous and rapid focus switching and iv) the presence of distractors with irrelevant information to be suppressed (which elicits visual attention and task switching). In this perspective, Kühn et al (2018) employed an action video game to reduce depression symptoms, which may cause downfall in attention, memory, and rumination.…”

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Commercial video games as a resource for mental health: A systematic literature review

Boldi

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2021

Behaviour & Information Technology

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Game-based interventions have been gradually and successfully implemented in the mental health domain given the games' ability to positively affect a variety of mental health conditions. To this aim, scholars have recently discovered the usefulness of Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) video games, due to their increasing popularity, availability, and cost effectiveness. Nevertheless, key aspects of this line of research have not emerged yet, since a comprehensive overview of how commercial video games impact on different mental disorders is still missing. In this article, we present a systematic literature review of recent research that focuses on the usage of commercial video games in mental health. We analyze 39 papers and map the relevant themes that are recurrent in the last ten years of research, offering a detailed understanding of the methodological approaches that were used, the results obtained, the main disorders addressed, and the video game genres exploited. On the basis of these findings, we highlight open issues in current work and point out a variety of research opportunities that could be tackled in future years, like the need of conducting more field and longitudinal studies, the necessity of developing the design knowledge, and the possibility of connecting research with clinical practice.

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Short video game play improves executive function in the oldest old living in residential care

Cited by 18 publications

References 60 publications

Investigating the Role of Health Factors and Psychological Well-Being in Gaming Disorder

Investigating the Role of Health Factors and Psychological Well-Being in Gaming Disorder

Inter-Individual Differences in Executive Functions Predict Multitasking Performance – Implications for the Central Attentional Bottleneck

Commercial video games as a resource for mental health: A systematic literature review

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