It was refreshing that the researchers interviewed did not speculate reasons for the phenomenon.

As a laymen though, I’m free to guess. I do think boys propensity to binge video games is a explanatory factor. Based off my experience, playing progress- oriented games tricks your brain into thinking you are accomplishing something tangible. I think the only thing that steered me away from heading down a dark path was athletics, which grounded me in the real world growing up