Open AccessCorrelates of excessive Pokemon Go playing among medical students
Author(s) -
Mili Ashar,
Liz Thaliath,
Kimaya Sali,
Suprakash Chaudhury,
Biswajit Jagtap,
Anand A Patil,
Spandana Devabhaktuni
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
industrial psychiatry journal/industrial psychiatry journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0976-2795
pISSN - 0972-6748
DOI - 10.4103/ipj.ipj_92_18
Subject(s) - peer pressure , psychology , test (biology) , anxiety , nonprobability sampling , social psychology , clinical psychology , psychiatry , medicine , paleontology , population , environmental health , biology
A new virus "Pokémon GO" is infecting Homo sapiens at an exponential rate. The symptoms include swaying your cell phone in air and focusing in blankness, straying into the unknown in search "Pikachu". In the "Pokedemiological" triad, the host is a medical student, agent is Pokémon GO, and the environment is a chaos of childhood fantasies and peer pressure turning into a vicious cycle of addiction, stress, anxiety, and depression.