Online gaming addiction in children and adolescents: A review of empirical research.

Kuss, Daria J.; Griffiths, Mark D

doi:10.1556/JBA.1.2012.1.1

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Online gaming addiction in children and adolescents: A review of empirical research.

Author(s): Daria Kuss, Mark Griffiths

Publication date: 2012-03-01

Journal: Journal of Behavioral Addictions

Publisher: Akademiai Kiado Zrt.

Keywords: internet gaming addiction, literature review, online games, adolescents, children, classification

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Research suggests that excessive online gaming may lead to symptoms commonly experienced by substance addicts. Since games are particularly appealing to children and adolescents, these individuals may be more at risk than other groups of developing gaming addiction.

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Researchers have studied whether some youth are "addicted" to video games, but previous studies have been based on regional convenience samples. Using a national sample, this study gathered information about video-gaming habits and parental involvement in gaming, to determine the percentage of youth who meet clinical-style criteria for pathological gaming. A Harris poll surveyed a randomly selected sample of 1,178 American youth ages 8 to 18. About 8% of video-game players in this sample exhibited pathological patterns of play. Several indicators documented convergent and divergent validity of the results: Pathological gamers spent twice as much time playing as nonpathological gamers and received poorer grades in school; pathological gaming also showed comorbidity with attention problems. Pathological status significantly predicted poorer school performance even after controlling for sex, age, and weekly amount of video-game play. These results confirm that pathological gaming can be measured reliably, that the construct demonstrates validity, and that it is not simply isomorphic with a high amount of play.