Online Game Addiction and the Level of Depression Among Adolescents in Manila, Philippines
| Autor: | Kyeth Elmerson Jumawid, Adrian R. Imperial, Marc Jayson M. Lupague, Jehan L. Hadjisaid, Ryan V Labana, Daniel C. Malicdem |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
media_common.quotation_subject Psychological intervention 050108 psychoanalysis neuroscience 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Cronbach's alpha medicine 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Depression (differential diagnoses) media_common Addiction Public health Incidence (epidemiology) lcsh:Public aspects of medicine 05 social sciences public health video games lcsh:RA1-1270 General Medicine Mental health 030227 psychiatry Video game addiction depression addiction Psychology human activities mental health Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Central Asian Journal of Global Health, Vol 9, Iss 1 (2020) |
| ISSN: | 2166-7403 |
| Popis: | Introduction: World Health Organization recognizes online game addiction as a mental health condition. The rise of excessive online gaming is emerging in the Philippines, with 29.9 million gamers recorded in the country. The incidence of depression is also increasing in the country. The current correlational analysis evaluated the association between online game addiction and depression in Filipino adolescents. Methods: A paper-and-pencil self-administered questionnaire assessing depression and online game addiction was distributed from August to November, 2018. The questionnaire included socio-demographic profiles of the respondents, and the 14-item Video Game Addiction Test (VAT) (Cronbach's α=0.91) and the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (Cronbach's α=0.88) to determine levels of online game addiction and depression, respectively. Multiple regression analyses were used to test the association between depression and online game addiction. Results: Three hundred adolescents (59% males, 41% females) participated in the study. Fifty-three out of 300 respondents (12.0% males, 5.7% females) had high level of online game addiction as reflected in their high VAT scores. In this study, 37 respondents (6.7% males, 5.7% females) had moderately severe depression and 6 (2.0%) females had severe depression. Online game addiction was positively correlated with depression in this study (r=0.31; p |
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