How Do Playing Video Games Affect Students Performance?

Playing video games affects students’ performance in their duties and make them get low grades in school or even in college. First, they should know hot to manage their time in a good way and not to waste it. At this age, students don’t know what it wrong and what is right and they have a lot of arguments about everything as they want to know and make their parents know that they became adult enough and know how to depend on themselves. They also want to try everything they see even if it’s wrong so parents have a great role to manage their thoughts, times and try to be their friends to give them advice and encourage them to do their best so children will listen to them. Skoric et al proved that, “students get low grades because of video games” …show more content…
It depends on the gender, place and type of game. It can control you, your feelings and your thoughts as children make anything they see because they want to get their parent’s attention. Parents have great role to control what type of games they play a lot of video games have violent scene and this affect their personality and they imagine things that don’t even exist and do it in real life which are very dangerous for themselves and others so parents should pay attention to what they watch or what they play to make sure that their personalities and manners not affected by video games badly. Lee et al show that, “percentage of males (54%) is higher than females (46%) in playing video games” (677). Males spend a lot of time playing video games more than females moreover they play in groups more than the individual. The gender related to gamer psychologies and priority. We conclude that video games not only affect your life but can also affect your personality and that depends on the type of game you play because young people make what they see as they don’t know what is right and what is …show more content…
They enjoy having problems with gambling instead of girls. Video games are for fun only and have its rules to play so we don’t have the right to change it anyway or make our own rule so everyone should stop and correct the way of playing. Delfabbro et al show that, “10% of young people gamble at least one per week” (392). Young people spend a lot of time more than they should on gambling. They also have no ability to gamble until they reached 18 as it’s illegal for them so the percentage is very low. Gambling can affect their manners and change their life completely. We can say that is not a good thing to make gambling a lifestyle as it spreads all over the world among people especially adolescents and we can consider this as a bad