Social Activities, Self-Efficacy, Game Attitudes, and Game Addiction

Abstract

This study examines whether social activities with parents, online and offline social self-efficacy, and attitudes toward gaming are associated with the degree of game addiction among adolescents. Using data from a survey of 600 middle- and high-school students in South Korea, we tested the relationships of personal characteristics (grade point average and time spent on gaming each day), social self-efficacy (both on- and offline), general social activities (with parents, friends, and teachers), gaming activities with parents, and attitudes toward gaming (those of self, parents, friends, and teachers) with the degree of game addiction. In addition, we conducted ANOVA tests to determine the differences among three groups: non-addicts (NA), possible (mild or moderate) addicts (PA), and Internet addicts (IA). The results show that social self-efficacy in the real world (offline) was negatively related with the degree of game addiction, whereas social self-efficacy in the virtual world (online) indicated a positive association. Social activities with parents are negatively associated with game addiction, although no relationship is found between gaming activities with parents and game addiction. Parental attitude toward gaming has a negative relationship with the addiction. Results and implications are discussed.

Relation between Video Game Addiction and Interfamily Relationships on Primary School Students

“…The findings of the current study are in line with the findings of the study conducted by Chiu et al (2004). Furthermore, Jeong and Kim (2011) state that the amount and quality of social time spent with one's parents has effect on individuals' video game addiction. Regarding the literature, even though only a few number of studies on video game addiction and family relations have been conducted, there do exist studies which showing there to be a meaningful relation between internet addiction and family relations (Liu & Kuo, 2007;Mesch, 2003;Yen et al, 2007).…”

“…Colwell, Grady, and Rhaiti (1995) attribute the reasons of children's or teenagers' playing computer games to preferring computer games to friends, caring about virtual friendships, preferring actions, coping with the feeling of loneliness, and escaping from problems. In a study carried out by Jeong and Kim (2011), it is seen that there is a negative meaningful relation between game addiction and children's social self-efficiency and their participation in social activities with their parents. At the same time, they found a negative meaningful relation between parents' attitudes toward games and children's game addiction.…”

An Exploration of Players' Aggression: Role of Game and Life Self-Efficacy and Adaptive Game Use Tendency

“…The social self-efficacy in online game scale [35] was modified to serve as a measure of game self-efficacy through 12 items. This measure focused on each individual's sense of competence with games.…”

“…Furthermore, prior literature paid considerable attention to the personal characteristics of players, such as their age and gender [35]. In this sense, we expected that aggression of players would be at least related to age and gender in terms of gaming activity.…”

“…Schunk [34] asserted that self-efficacy has a positive influence on motivation and performance irrespective of the domain. Many studies have identified that individuals with a high degree of self-efficacy tend to dedicate themselves to perform tasks and behaviors [35].…”