A Psychosomatic Study for the Children in Primary School

对大阪和奈良两所小学的儿童进行了问卷调查，询问他们的每一个心身问题和睡眠、饮食等日常生活中的几个问题。在心身症状和/或行为问题(如头痛、沉默)方面，性别差异显著。此外，年龄较小的儿童和年龄较大的儿童之间的许多心身症状也不同。研究表明，与那些熬夜的孩子相比，早起的孩子表现出的症状较少。在催眠期的情况下也有同样的趋势。与吃得快的孩子相比，吃得快的孩子要晚得多。最有趣的结论如下：与不玩游戏机的儿童相比，每天玩游戏机的儿童表现出许多心身症状，如咳嗽、易感冒、疲倦、情感障碍、异常习惯和眨眼。结果表明，儿童玩的电脑游戏可能存在成人技术压力(VDT压力)中已知的不适当直立的可能性。

A screening test of the questionasires inquiring the every psychosomatic problems and the several affairs of the daily life like sleep as well as eating etc. was carried out in the children with the primary school of Osaka and Nara. The sex difference about the psychosomatic symptoms and/or behavioural problems like headache and mutism was remarkable. Furthermore a number of psychosomatic symptoms differed between the younger children and the elder ones. It was appeared That the children getting up early in the morning showed little symptoms compared with the ones who kept late hours. The same tendencies were noted in the case of hypnagogic stage. The children whose speed of eating was remarkably late as compared with the ones who ate speedy. As a results the most interesting conclusions were as follows:The childlen playing the game computor daily showed a number of psychosomatic symptoms like coughing,proness to catch cald, fatigability,apathia,abnormal habits and/or customs and twinkling eyes as compared with the children who didn't play with the game computer. The results suggested that the game computor played by children may have the possibilities of inappropriate errects known in adult technostress(VDT stress).