Government Regulation of Online Game Addiction

Government Regulation of Online Game Addiction

Online Digital Game Addiction: How Does Social Relationship Impact Game Addiction

Relationship is one of the most basic needs of human being. When our relationship suffers, we tend to turn to online game as an alternative to fulfill our unmet need. Massive Multi-user Online Role-playing Games (MMORPGs) environment is an ideal platform for multiple players to interact, to make friends, and to complete a task together. Social Learning Theory deposits that behaviors are learned...

The Development of Indonesian Online Game Addiction Questionnaire

Online game is an increasingly popular source of entertainment for all ages, with relatively prevalent negative consequences. Addiction is a problem that has received much attention. This research aims to develop a measure of online game addiction for Indonesian children and adolescents. The Indonesian Online Game Addiction Questionnaire draws from earlier theories and research on the internet ...

Online video game addiction: identification of addicted adolescent gamers.

AIMS To provide empirical data-driven identification of a group of addicted online gamers. DESIGN Repeated cross-sectional survey study, comprising a longitudinal cohort, conducted in 2008 and 2009. SETTING Secondary schools in the Netherlands. PARTICIPANTS   Two large samples of Dutch schoolchildren (aged 13-16 years). MEASUREMENTS Compulsive internet use scale, weekly hours of online ...

Gray matter and white matter abnormalities in online game addiction.

Online game addiction (OGA) has attracted greater attention as a serious public mental health issue. However, there are only a few brain magnetic resonance imaging studies on brain structure about OGA. In the current study, we used voxel-based morphometry (VBM) analysis and tract-based spatial statistics (TBSS) to investigate the microstructural changes in OGA and assessed the relationship betw...