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What is the relationship between gaming and depression?
A recently published study in the journal Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking found that people who use multiple media, like playing a video game while surfing the internet, are predisposed to depression and anxiety. The researchers, from Michigan State university, aren’t sure which way the effect runs, in other words, they don’t know whether using multiple media leads to those problems or if people with those problems gravitate towards using multiple media. I got in contact with Mark Becker, a Michigan State psychologist and the lead on the study, to ask him how video games were different, if at all, from…