How Do Video Games Affect Academic Performance?

Furthermore, education plays as a significant role in people’s daily lives. This is the reason why they have to attend schools or universities in order to get knowledge. Having good or bad educational background depends on how well the students prepare and perform their works inside and outside their schools. Still, there are some students who do not pay attention to their studies. Young people such as adolescents or adults like to do some activities which are amusing or enjoyable. In that case, they use video game to entertain themselves because it is the most popular one for all young people. As a result, it causes them to become addicted to video game playing without even realizing it. Instead of completing their homework or reviewing their lessons in their free-times, they prefer to play video games or online games which allow them to contact with one another. From this, day by day, their academic performance starts appearing to be poorer and poorer.
Having understood how the video game addiction correlated with academic performance, we entirely know that spending

The hypothesis of the present study is the more time students spend playing video games, the lower their academic performance will be. 30 participants who were freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors from American University of Phnom Penh (AUPP), who were formed of 15 females and 15 males, were asked to conduct the survey. It was found that the correlation between video game addiction and academic performance was -0.69, which is moderate negative correlation, meaning the findings were consonant with the hypothesis. Thus, the findings show that at the same time of when student spend too much time using video game, they will lower their academic