Some studies have identified the positive effect of video games on mental health, while others have identified negative effects. This paper will address the relationship between hours spent playing video games and happiness. Overall happiness was measured on a scale of 1 (very unsatisfied) to 10 and also happiness was broken into satisfaction in different categories to define it: academics, relationships with others, and extracurriculars. Additionally, hours of sleep was also collected because research suggests that sleep is linked to happiness and video games can be linked to sleep. Firstly, a Chi-Square Test Goodness of Fit was used to deduce that the average happiness from the three categories didn’t fit the overall happiness. Throughout the rest of the analysis, the averages were used instead. From the Mann-Whitney test, two main conclusions were drawn: the average hours of sleep for people who do and don’t play video games were from the same population and the “happiness” of people who do and don’t play video games were from the same population. Lastly, a Chi-Square Test of Association was used. The only significant result was that the “happiness” of an individual in a month was associated with hours of sleep.
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