Research Trends in Study for the Game Addiction

게임중독에 대한 연구동향 -Pubmed를 중심으로-

  • Jang, Young-Ju (Dept. of Oriental Neuropsychiatry College of Oriental Medicine, Daejeon University) ;
  • Choe, Gang-Uk (Dept. of Oriental Neuropsychiatry College of Oriental Medicine, Daejeon University) ;
  • Jung, In-Chul (Dept. of Oriental Neuropsychiatry College of Oriental Medicine, Daejeon University) ;
  • Lee, Sang-Yong (Dept. of Oriental Neuropsychiatry College of Oriental Medicine, Daejeon University)
  • 장영주 (대전대학교 한의과대학 신경정신과학교실) ;
  • 최강욱 (대전대학교 한의과대학 신경정신과학교실) ;
  • 정인철 (대전대학교 한의과대학 신경정신과학교실) ;
  • 이상룡 (대전대학교 한의과대학 신경정신과학교실)
  • Accepted : 2007.11.12
  • Published : 2007.12.31

Abstract

Objectives : To help Oriental medicine clinical studies for the game addiction treatment, this study analyzed the tendency of research into game addiction recently published in PubMed Methods : This study analyzed 13 research papers on game addictionpublished in PubMed over the past 3 years. It measured annually and for each country the number of papers published, the number of subject, the period of research, the method of study, the objective of study, and intervision, respectively and intervision, and the result of study overall Results : There were research papers concerning internet & online game, computer game, gambling, video game. The subject of study were adolescents, high school students, children, young adult. there are many reaearch papers on negative results of games. there are research papers of the mechanism or factors of game addiction. Conclusions : Recent research subject of game addiction were mostly the defect of game.

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