Measures of behavioral function predict duration of video game play: Utilization of the Video Game Functional Assessment – Revised

Buono, Frank D.; Griffiths, Mark D.; Sprong, Matthew E.; Lloyd, Daniel P.; Sullivan, Ryan M.; Upton, Thomas D.

doi:10.1556/2006.6.2017.084

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“…By using logistic regression, a positive correlation between the Monothetic GAS score and Polythetic Partial GAS score with Daily gaming time was evidenced, in agreement with other studies [25,34,47]. This correlation was not present with the Polythetic Global GAS score; in this case, it was shown that Daily game frequency and Education level were a positive and negative predictor of Polythetic Global GAS score, respectively.…”

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“…However, there is still an open debate to identify addiction syndrome in comparison to behavioral dependence in a more specific way in order not to pathologize common behaviors [24]. Furthermore, it is not yet clear how behaviors considered pathological can be related to the duration of the game, or how to understand the seriousness of dependent behaviors [25]. This association is due to the fact that a gaming disorder shares many features with addictions related to psychoactive substances and with gambling disorder [26].…”

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An Investigation into Video Game Addiction in Pre-Adolescents and Adolescents: A Cross-Sectional Study

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Background and Objectives: Game addiction is an emerging problem in public health. A gaming disorder is characterized by a pattern of persistent or recurrent gaming behavior. The behavioral pattern is severe enough to implicate a significant involvement of family, social, educational, professional, or other relationships. Therefore, greater attention needs to be paid to potential addictive behaviors in terms of video games in order to identify both pre-adolescents and adolescents at risk and to provide them with adequate assistance. Materials and Methods: A random sample of 622 students including pre-adolescents and adolescents were enrolled from September 1st to October 31th 2016, and the Game Addiction Scale (GAS) interview was used to identify pathological students with both Monothetic and Polythetic analysis. Results: This study shows the presence of pathological students is equal to 1.93%, with 37.46% and 4.50% obtained with Monothetic and Polythetic analysis (global and partial), respectively. In our sample, the most frequent were students with a gaming time of 1 or 2 h, and students with a day gaming frequency of 1, 2, or 3 times a day. The items with more pathological students were Item 2 (i.e., Tolerance) and 4 (i.e., Withdrawal). Every item was positively correlated with Daily gaming time (hours) and Daily game frequency, excluding Item 4 (i.e., Withdrawal). Finally, the Monothetic GAS score was positively correlated with Daily gaming time while the Polythetic Global GAS was positively correlated with Daily game frequency and negatively with Education level; instead, the Polythetic Partial GAS score was positively correlated with only Daily gaming time. Conclusion: Males are pathological gamblers more so than females and spend more time playing video games. An increase in Daily game frequency or Daily gaming time implicates an increase in video game addictions, while an increase in Education level, which generally corresponds to a greater age, implicates a decrease in game addiction. Finally, we observed that the correlations obtained between the Polythetic Partial GAS score with the independent variables such as Age, Gender, Education level, Daily gaming time (hours), and Daily game frequency were analogous to the significant correlations obtained with the Monothetic GAS score, while these correlations were different for the Polythetic Global GAS and the independent variables. These results suggest that the use of the original Polythetic scale should not be neglected.

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“…The VGFA-R sub-scores demonstrated meaningful gender differences in the present study. In particular, previous research 19,20 has indicated the escape-maintained function of online gaming (i.e., avoiding school/job responsibilities) is significantly correlated with number of hours played weekly.…”

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“…Participants completed the Video Game Functional Assessment-Revised (VGFA-R) on a 24-item Likert scale that assesses four functions that sustain videogame play: (i) social attention, (ii) tangible/intangible rewards, (iii) escape/avoidance of demands or pain, and sensory stimulation (Buono et al, 2016) 20 . The assessment comprised one of seven responses indicating degrees of agreement or disagreement to the statement (1=Never, 2=Almost never, 3=Seldom, 4=Half of the time, 5=Usually, 6=Almost always, 7=Always).…”

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Gaming and Gaming Disorder: A Mediation Model Gender, Salience, Age of Gaming Onset, and Time Spent Gaming

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Paul

Sprong

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Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking

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Females in empirically based peer-reviewed studies of internet gaming disorder are underrepresented, despite evidence that there are only minor gender disparities present in online gaming. Moreover, few studies have specifically evaluated adult gender effects, within a formal diagnosis of internet gaming disorder, and behavioral motivation, as defined by the reinforcing behavioral function. A mediation analysis evaluated the relationship between gender, behavioral motivation, and the diagnostic features in online gaming among adults to understand the impact of motivation on videogame playing. The present study interviewed 304 adults (aged over 18 years) in which 178 identified as female. Participants completed the Video Game Functional Assessment-Revised (VGFA-R) and the 20-item Internet Gaming Disorder Test (IGDT-20) via an online survey. Results showed that number of hours played per week, and sub-factors of the VGFA-R differed between gender, indicating that the function and the maintaining of videogame play is essential in evaluating videogame addiction. These findings support and extend the literature's limited findings concerning gender and online gaming.

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“…Time is an important concept when playing games that could be motivated or disrupted by tangible things. It shows that time inside the game is a matter that could make players become more addicted or could prevent/mitigate the addiction [17]. Meaning, it also shows that the time factor inside the game could whether drive addiction or prevent/mitigate the addiction element inside the game.…”

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Which Gating System Can Prevent Addiction to Online Games?

Matheus

Jayadi

2023

International Journal of Computer Games Technology

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The online game industry has increased time by time. Because of that, many addiction cases emerge in humans. In addition, some factors could make people addicted and mitigate or prevent the addiction. However, this addiction has already created some problems, such as skipping school (mild cases) to murder cases (huge cases). A gating system is a system that could prevent players from experiencing some content in the game after a specific limit has been reached. This study is aimed at identifying which gating systems in online games could make players more addicted and which systems are the most appropriate to mitigate or prevent addiction to online games. The study is done with a survey from online game communities with 458 samples in Indonesia. The result of the study shows that resource is the factor that affects addiction, and the stamina gating system is the one that affects resource as mitigation of addiction. This research shows that the stamina gating system will affect how players manage their resources in real life so that they will not be addicted to the game.

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Measures of behavioral function predict duration of video game play: Utilization of the Video Game Functional Assessment – Revised

Cited by 10 publications

References 37 publications

An Investigation into Video Game Addiction in Pre-Adolescents and Adolescents: A Cross-Sectional Study

An Investigation into Video Game Addiction in Pre-Adolescents and Adolescents: A Cross-Sectional Study

Gaming and Gaming Disorder: A Mediation Model Gender, Salience, Age of Gaming Onset, and Time Spent Gaming

Which Gating System Can Prevent Addiction to Online Games?

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