Investigation of the Online Game Addiction Level, Sociodemographic Characteristics and Social Anxiety as Risk Factors for Online Game Addiction in Middle School Students
| Autor: | Gül Ünsal Barlas, Nevin Onan, Semra Karaca, Ayşe Karakoç, Özlem Can Gürkan |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Health (social science)
media_common.quotation_subject education Anxiety 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Risk Factors Surveys and Questionnaires Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Child Students Aged media_common Internet Schools Addiction Social anxiety Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Online computer 030227 psychiatry Computer game Behavior Addictive Sample group Psychiatry and Mental health Cross-Sectional Studies Scale (social sciences) Psychology Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Community Mental Health Journal. 56:830-838 |
| ISSN: | 1573-2789 0010-3853 |
| Popis: | The purpose of this study was to investigate the online game addiction (OGA) level and the risk factors involved in OGA among middle school students. The descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted at seven middle schools in the province of Istanbul. The data were collected with a questionnaire, the Computer Game Addiction Scale for Children (CGASC) and the Social Anxiety Scale for Children (SASC); 1174 students who played online computer games were included in the study. It was found that 5.7% of the sample group were addictive users, that 44% were problematic users and that an older age, a higher level of social anxiety (SA), having a mother who is employed, having parents who completed high school or a higher level of education, and the time spent on the computer are risk factors for OGA. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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