{"id":848823,"date":"2026-03-25T07:22:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T07:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/848823\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T07:22:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T07:22:20","slug":"researchers-made-scale-for-post-game-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/848823\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Made Scale for Post-Game Depression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you feel sadness and unrest when finishing a game, don&#8217;t worry: you&#8217;re not alone. In fact, there is now a scale that can measure your feelings, thanks to researchers Kamil Janowicz and Piotr Klimczyk, who described their findings in their <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s12144-025-08515-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">paper<\/a>, &#8220;Post-game depression scale \u2013 a new measure to capture players&#8217; experiences after finishing video games.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They studied 373 players who played regularly: every day (28.1%) or almost every day (41.4%). The Post-Game Depression Scale (P-GDS) contained four subscales: game-related ruminations (thoughts about the plot), challenging end of experience, necessity of repeating the game, and media anhedonia (a loss of interest in other media).<\/p>\n<p>The authors concluded that game-related ruminations were the most intense aspect of post-game depression, while media anhedonia was the least intense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you feel sadness and unrest when finishing a game, don&#8217;t worry: you&#8217;re not alone. In fact, there&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":848824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4317],"tags":[105,218,12,16,15,1644],"class_list":{"0":"post-848823","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-mental-health","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-video-games"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116288615234695745","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=848823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/848824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}