The study of the relation between online game addiction and online gamer behavior
| Autor: | Lin, Yi-Ling, 林怡玲 |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
| Druh dokumentu: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Popis: | 98 The internet is not only for searching, the media of communication but also for various entertainment such as online game. In 2001 the market size of Taiwan online game is 1.71 billion, in 2009 the market size is 11.3 billion, there is estimation for market size in 2010 is expected to reach 12.6 billion. During the decade the market has grown seven times. This paper examines the online gamers’ level of addiction and immersion experience. In this paper, Flow Theory is used to categorize and to understand the different types of players by using chisquare. The questionnaires were designed by adopting from the scale that Lemmens published in 2009 and Hoffman et al.’s Flow Model. The method used to collect our data was through surveying. A total of 307 valid questionnaires were collected through the web site. According to the Internet Addiction, there are seven dimensions that were analyzed: tolerance, withdrawal, relapse, conflict, salience, problems, and mood modification. Moreover according to Flow Model, there are seven dimensions that were analyzed: attention, control/skill, exploring behavior, disoriented to time, disoriented to distance, interaction, and invasion. These fourteen dimensions totally were analyzed and were categorized into six major subjects. Next the use of cluster analysis, separated into three groups, And For demographic variables, Internet use behavior analysis to conduct the external consistency. The result shows that the gamer that have high reliable on online games would have great experience and spent much time and money on online game. |
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