By Andrew M. Seaman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The amount of time children spend playing video games is linked to small differences in their mental and social health, according to a new study. Compared to children who didn't play any video games at all, kids who played for no more than an hour a day scored better on mental and social health assessments - while kids who played for three or more hours per day scored worse. “It is probably more important knowing how much (game play) is happening than controlling how much is happening,” said Andrew Przybylski, an experimental psychologist and research fellow at the University of Oxford’s Oxford Internet Institute in the UK. For example, the game’s content and whether or not a parent plays with the child may be more important to mental and social health than how long the game is played.
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