Please state whether the statement below is true or false If

Please state whether the statement below is true or false. If true or false, please explain why.

The motion of the spring which is oscillatory has a positive velocity when the spring expands and a negative velocity when the spring contracts. Thus the negative value of the velocity can only be taken care of by the absolute value of dx/dt, i.e. |dx/dt|. Therefore the damping term which oscillates between positive and negative values is better represented by ?|dx/dt|dx/dt instead of ?(dx/dt)2.