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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Tateno, Masaru
• Skokauskas, Norbert
• Kato, Takahiro A
• Teo, Alan R
• Guerrero, Anthony P.S

Titel

New game software (Pokémon Go) may help youth with severe social withdrawal, hikikomori

Ist Teil von

• Psychiatry research, 2016-12, Vol.246, p.848-849

Ort / Verlag

Ireland: Elsevier B.V

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

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Quelle

Elsevier ScienceDirect Journals Complete

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Highlights • Pokémon Go is game software specially designed for smartphones. • It was released in Japan on July 22nd. • To enjoy Pokémon Go, players are requested to go out to find Pokémon characters. • In Japan, there has been a severe social withdrawal, called hikikomori. • A nationwide survey estimated that the total number of hikikomori in Japan is about 230,000 (Koyama et al., Psych Res 2010). • Unlike other video games that keep players in front of monitors or motionless while holding portable game-players or otherwise shut in their own rooms, Pokémon Go forces its players to go out. • Thus, Pokémon Go may help youth with severe social withdrawal, hikikomori.