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http://dx.doi.org/10.7583/JKGS.2013.13.2.131

The Effects of Self-control and Construal Level on Game Addiction  

Jang, Ye-Beet (National Research Foundation of Korea, SSK)
Lee, Hye-Rim (Dept. of Digital Culture & Contents, Konkuk University)
Kim, Min-Kyu (Dept. of Cultural Content)
Jeong, Eui-Jun (Dept. of Digital Culture & Contents, Konkuk University)
Ryu, Seoung-Ho (Dept. of Visual Culture, Kangwon National Universtiy)
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Journal of Korea Game Society / v.13, no.2, 2013 , pp. 131-142 More about this Journal
Abstract
The current study examined how different level of self-constol and construal level influences game users' game addiction. Also we explored the interaction effect between the individual's self-control and construal level on game addiction. To answer the research questions, we conducted an online survey and total 918 participants were selected for the final analysis. According to the results, users with low level of self-control and low-level construal showed higher level of game addiction. In addition, we found a significant interaction effect between self-control and construal-level on game addiction. In high self-control group, game addiction level was low regardless of level of self-construal. However, in low self-control group, the level of construal-level affected game addiction. We found that construal-level played an important mediating variable. These findings suggest a noble insight for autonomous control in alleviatinggame addiction by changing one's level of self-control and self-construal.
Keywords
Game addiction; Self-control; Construal-level theory; High-level construal; Low-level construal;
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