Online RPG has adverse effects on many couples' married life

ByChrisjagers

"World of Warcraft"Online games like online games (online RPG) have reported research results that have a negative impact on married life. This result appeared remarkably when the husband was a heavy gamer.

Online role-playing games hurt marital satisfaction, says BYU study

Professor Neil Lundberg of Brigham Young University and graduate student Michelle Ahlstrom have studied the negative impact that online RPG has on marriage. This research result was published on February 15Journal of Leisure ResearchIt is published in.

Survey was conducted for 349 pairs of couples. The average age of respondents is 33 years, married life is average seventh year. Of the couple, only 84% are husbands who are gamers. There were cases of couple and gamers, and in that case, 73% accounted for cases where husbands are playing games well.

As a result of the investigation, it became clear that 75% of gamers' spouses feel they want more fever in reality married life than guild life in games. Especially when my husband was a heavy gamer, there were many cases where my wife complained about married life. This is caused by the fact that the time to bed in by playing is shifted, which makes the marriage life boring, the time to stay together is reduced, and the amount of important conversation decreases.

Couples saying that they are playing games with each other, there are cases where the degree of satisfaction with marriage is low in the same way, the cause was also in the gap between couples of bedtime. Satisfaction declines if it gets quarreled about the game and the "ceremony before going to bed" (for example, polishing teeth, decorating hair etc, every day doing things such as brushing your hair) is hindered. But 76% of gamers and couples said the game had a positive impact.

ByClarkmackey

Ahlstrom who investigated said, "Not all games are bad," he says. Because playing together in the game sometimes deepens the relationship between the two people. However, I'd like you to think carefully about what kind of game to play. What is it doing in the game, how much time is spent, how does the game influence school life, work, sleep, body, spouse and married life? .

Professors Lundberg and others are thinking about whether the actual situation is worse than the result of this research though the survey has been completed. Because, truly enthusiastic heavy gamers do not cooperate with such investigation.

Since there are reports that many gamers are married around the world, and in particular there are reports that 36% of MMORPG players are married, it is believed that such problems are occurring in a wide range .