Associations Between Gaming and Physical Activity Among Finnish Adolescents During and After the Spring 2020 COVID-19 Lockdown
Ng, K., Sokka, M., Karhulahti, V.-M., Koskimaa, R., Husu, P., Kokko, S., & Koski, P. (2024). Associations Between Gaming and Physical Activity Among Finnish Adolescents During and After the Spring 2020 COVID-19 Lockdown. International Journal of Esports. https://www.ijesports.org/ijesports/public/article/126
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Aims: To examine the evolving trends of video game play, such as esports, between spring (COVID-19 lockdown) and autumn 2020 among Finnish high-school students. Moreover, to examine the associations between video gaming and physical activity (PA) behaviours.
Methods and Results: Data from online self-report surveys; a Finnish late-adolescent physical activity (LAPA) study during spring (n = 2459) and autumn (n = 4781) 2020 were used to address the aims of the study. Descriptive statistics to compare the change between spring and autumn 2020 were used. Multinomial logistic regression analyses were stratified by data collection, with PA as the outcome after controlling for gender, age, disability, and place of residence. There were increases between spring and autumn 2020 in video gaming behaviours among all genres covered in the LAPA study. Esports play during the autumn was negatively associated with daily PA (OR = 0.65, CI = 0.44 – 0.95) but not during the spring. On the other hand, playing sports video games was positively associated with PA at least five days a week in both the spring (OR = 1.86, CI = 1.26 – 2.74) and autumn (OR = 2.14, CI = 1.65 – 2.77) time periods.
Conclusions: There were increases in gaming behaviour between spring (the COVID-19 lockdown) and autumn 2020 among Finnish high school students, especially among esports players. There were negative associations between playing esports and daily PA. Since daily PA is the Finnish national recommendation, esports players could be a target group for promoting PA behaviours.
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