Over the last decade, there had been an increase in academic attention given to online gaming as the dominant activity among college students. ... The vast majority of gamers state that the gaming activity has positive effects for them and online gaming in itself appears to have very few negative consequences for average gamers. ... Although the gaming world is one of the most preferred leisure activities among adolescents, the psychosocial effects and physical consequences of excessive gaming need more attention. ... However, students who play mostly educational games experience a smaller dro...

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Especially when representing leisure activities such as the outdoors, sports, cars and driving, relaxing, or entertaining at home. ... The male-oriented commercials contain more cuts, loud music, and unruly activity, whereas female-oriented commercials contain more fades and dissolves, soft music, and quiet play (Bretl, 604). ...

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It has been thought that children learn more efficiently and gain more knowledge through play-based activities such as dramatic play, art, and social games. ... Preschoolers are able to develop more elaborate fantasy play and sustain it by forming friendships within the group, cooperate with their peers, learn to control their impulses, and tend to be less aggressive than children who do not engage in this form of play activity. ... Although the term "play" is often considered one of leisure and fun, for children it is the arena which fosters invaluable learning that will greatly be...

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Ideas about masculinity & femininity pervade discourses that impact thinking, action, & outcome patriarchy is arguably the oldest example of a forced or exploitative division of social activities and clearly existed before it was ever examined by sociologists, the features of patriarchy had been accepted as natural (biological) in substance. ... Men split their extra two hours between leisure and paid employment. ...

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