Journal of Biochemistry Research

Tv Addiction

 Television addiction may be a proposed addiction model related to maladaptive or compulsive behavior related to watching television programming. The pathological television watching behavior may constitute a real behavioral addiction, but indicated that far more research on this subject is needed to demonstrate this he made recent medical review on this model concluded  .The compulsion are often extremely difficult to regulate in many cases. The television addiction model has parallels to other sorts of behavioral addiction,like addiction to drugs or gambling, which also are sorts of compulsive behavior. Everyone known   by them as ” that television is addictive–Marshall McLuhan (1978) said so himself. From 65% to 70% of adults surveyed believe that TV is addictive (McIlwraith, 1990; Smith, 1986), although far fewer appear to believe that they personally are addicted. The problem with studying the phenomena of popular culture is that pronouncements and speculative phrasemaking tend to establish the conventional wisdom on topics like this long before anyone has even collected data. Although television addiction is widely believed in, it has only rarely been empirically studied. In this article, we bring together the existing psychological data on television addiction and TV addicts to examine how much of what we “know” really is so.  

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