Influencia de la pandemia por covid-19 en la adicción a los videojuegos en adolescentes

Abstract

This article is a descriptiveexplanatory review, in which it is sought to determine what influence the covid-19 pandemic had on video game addiction, through comparative figures regarding the use of video games, before, during and after confinement , in addition to the use of relevant, current and worldwide information, obtained by collecting 30 documents with a date range that does not exceed 10 years; This search was carried out through databases such as Dialnet, Scielo, Doaj among others, using key terms and their union. As a result, it was obtained that in countries such as Spain, Ecuador, the United States, France, the United Kingdom, Germany and Colombia, an increase in playing hours was evidenced in populations of different ages, including adolescents, in addition to an increase in the profits made by the video game industries. Concluding thus that there was influence of the COVID-19 pandemic in the abuse of the hours dedicated to video games, however, the influence of the covid-19 pandemic on video game addiction in adolescents could not be known, due to the lack of information regarding the damage or impact at a general level in the adolescent's life, which had the increase in the hours dedicated to video games, for now without talking about video game addiction.