Study identifies the personality traits of teenagers addicted to video games

Medical X-Press – Staff Writer

Gaming disorder (GD) is included in the latest edition of the WHO’s International Classification of Diseases, from 2018. In that year alone, the growth in the use of video games in Spain was 6.2 percent. In this context, the TXP research group of the CEU Cardenal Herrera University (CEU UCH) of Castellón, led by professor Gonzalo Haro, began a study to detect the teenage personality traits that predispose the youth to videogame addiction, comparing it to substance addiction.

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