• Asia-pacific Journal of Multimedia Services Convergent with Art, Humanities, and Sociology
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• v.9 no.8
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• pp.199-208
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• 2019

The escape theory is the theory of problem behavior such as suicide. The purpose of this study is to investigate the causes of gaming disorder, which has been attracting attention as a typical youth problem, through escape theory. Suicide theory is a process in which the problem triggered by the negative external environment flows into internal attribution and self-criticism, and this leads to a process leading to problematic behavior with disgust self-awareness. This process was applied to the environment, psychology, and behavior of adolescents. As a result, the lack of affection and consistency of the parents resulted in negative external environment, which affected the self-esteem of children by creating a negative external environment. And low self-esteem caused negative emotions, lowered self control, and confirmed to induce game addiction. The results of this analysis show that game addiction has a structure similar to obsessive behaviors such as binge eating and shopping addiction explained through the escape theory model and it is necessary to concentrate more on the environmental psychological factors for game addiction research.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.133-142
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• 2021

This study investigated the effectiveness of 'League of Legends (LoL) game school', an e-sports online training program for relieving youth game over-flow. The Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education's Student Education Institute ran the program. Through this study, it was found that various activities to learn an e-sports game professionally and to explore career paths regarding game had positive effects on students' affections and intrinsic motivation. This study may contribute to helping youth as generation Z understand a healthy game culture.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.77-85
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• 2020

This paper uses Preliminary Surveys of Game User Panels conducted in 2019 to examine how social relations that young game users held affect game use. In particular, we analyzed how social relations of youth affect adaptive and maladaptive usage of game. According to the statistical results, the quality of the relationship between users and parents and that of the relationship between users and their friends do not have consistent effects on the degree of adaptive and maladaptive game use. Also, the results suggests that game-related information can play as a double-edged sword for young game users by reinforcing the degree of adaptive and maladaptive game use. The results implies the possibility of interaction between adaptive and maladaptive game using behavior as an interpretative framework in social context rather than mutually exclusive mechanisms.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Computer Game
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• v.31 no.4
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• pp.101-110
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• 2018

This thesis analyzed the correlation between the psychological characteristics of adolescents and the use of games in the first year students of the national high school in 2016. The game is one of the representative entertainment industries in Korea and is an industry that has a great influence on becoming a powerhouse as cultural contents. However, games and immersion are expressed as a negative vocabulary of game addiction and are referred to as social problems and youth problems, and they give negative perception to the content of games. All users have the right to enjoy the content, but only negative words are used in poisonous games and they are packed as if they are social problems. In the present study, many emotional problems that were derived from previous studies were not related to game use in general adolescents. Through the questions related to 'depression', students who are not motivated or energy. The results of this study are as follows. First, the positive effects of game and youth emotional problems were derived through the conclusion that students who are active and emotionally bright are more likely to use game contents. This study was conducted to help change the social perception of the game positively by breaking the social fixed point of view that the emotionally troubled adolescents engage with the game and cause social problems.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.16 no.11
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• pp.223-239
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• 2016

We study online gaming regulations and examine the reactance and attitude of the targeted group. To be specific, we focus on the 'Shutdown Law' due to its scope and magnitude of its influence. The Shutdown Law was enforced to prevent adolescence's immersion in or addiction to online gaming; however, its effectiveness has yet to reach a consensus. Our empirical findings show that the reactance to the regulation is stronger as game usage increases; surprisingly the effect of game usage on reactance weakens among the affected adolescence's group, compared to the adult counterpart. Furthermore, heavy users in the targeted group are more likely to play online gaming to mingle with their peers, and thus more likely to play other activities that friends participate in. These results suggest that online games play a role to cultivate peer-culture among adolescence and facilitate their communication.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.17-26
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• 2017

Excessive use of the internet and smart phones have become a social issue. The level of engagement has both positive and negative effects such as good performance or indulgence phenomenon, respectively. This study was to develop an algorithm to determine the engagement state based on cardiovascular response. The participants were asked to play a pattern matching game and the experimental design was divided into cooperation and competition task to provide the level of engagement. The correlation between heart rate and amplitude was analyzed according to each task. The regression equation and accuracy were verified by polynomial regression analysis. The results showed that heart rate and amplitude were positively correlated when the task was a game, and negatively correlated when there was a reference task. The accuracy of classifying between game and reference task was 89%. The accuracy between tasks was confirmed to be 76.5%. This study is expected to be used to quantitatively evaluate the level of engagement in real time.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.455-460
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• 2014

In this paper, in order to improve the online game fatigue system for the purpose of use in South Korea and China's online game fatigue system analysis and comparison and find the problem and make improvements..Poisoning Prevention Youth Network game system, although many of the practical implementation of the research is very inadequate.So here we do it by comparing South Korea and China's online game fatigue system, promote physical fatigue perfect game addicted youth to further resolve the issue.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.49-60
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• 2013

The government enacted shutdown system in the fall of 2011. It was to secure a right to sleep for the youth and prevent them from being addicted to game. The opinion on the system was dichotomized: gamers were against it for the reason that shutdown system was not effective while non-gamers like parents thought that it was a measure to prevent game addiction. The trust of the public on the government is influenced by the factors of moral and competence. That is, if the policy chosen by the government is effective, the public come to trust their government more. Focusing on the factors of the government competence, this study examined to know how the effectiveness and efficiency of governmental policies have impact on the public trust on the government. Particularly this study looked carefully into what factors of political effectiveness have impact on the trust by group (group with and against the shutdown system). Through this study some implication could be obtained for the difference in trust between two groups.

• 한국정보교육학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2010.01a
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• pp.117-123
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• 2010

시대의 흐름에 따라 온라인 게임 중독 증상을 보이는 초등학생의 수가 증가하고 있다. 또한 온라인 게임 과몰입 청소년은 학교 및 일상생활에 많은 문제를 보이고 있으므로, 적절한 검사를 통해 가려내어 교육 및 치료를 꼭 해야 할 것이다. 이에 따라 본 연구에서는 본 논문에서는 정보 윤리학을 기반으로 온라인 게임 중독 초등학생을 유형별로 가려내기 위해, 보다 개선된 척도의 개발과 적용을 다루고 있다. 본 모형의 장점은 다음과 같다. 첫째, 기존 척도에 비해 검사 문항별 관련 도덕 항목을 구체적으로 제시하여 검사 후 교육에 도움을 줄 수 있다. 둘째, 기존 척도에 비해 항목을 보다 구체적으로 제시하여 정확한 검사가 이루어질 수 있도록 하였다. 개선된 검사도구로 실제로 측정해 본 결과, 서울 S초등학교 5학년 학생 중 고위험 사용자는 12%이며, 대부분의 학생들이 일반 또는 저위험 사용자에 속하는 결과를 알 수 있다.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.151-162
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• 2011

The purposes of this study were to find out the effect of children's and adolescents' achievement through the online game on their self-efficacy, school adjustment and life satisfaction in accordance with the degree of their online game playing. In heavy user group, children's and adolescents' achievement through the internet game had positive effect on their self-efficacy, school adjustment and life satisfaction. Also their self-efficacy mediated the relationship between their achievement through the online game and school adjustment, achievement through the online game and life satisfaction. This study investigated the fact that children's and adolescents' achievement through the online game affects their real life and found out positive possibility of the online game.