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A Case Study of Group Music Psychotherapy for Improving Adolescents' Awareness of the Motivation Behind Their Excessive Online Gaming (게임 과몰입 청소년의 게임 이용동기 인식을 위한 그룹 음악심리치료 사례)

  • Song, Jisun
    • Journal of Music and Human Behavior
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.1-28
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    • 2020
  • This case study aimed to investigate changes in adolescents' awareness of the motivation behind their excessive internet gaming after group music psychotherapy. Five middle school students participated in six 60-minute group sessions over 4 weeks. The group music psychotherapy program was developed to help participants understand their implicit reasons for excessive internet gaming. Verbal responses were obtained from pre-program and post-program interviews and original lyrics created by participants during program were collected for analysis. Obtained data were analyzed in terms of emotional and cognitive aspects in relation to the participants' awareness of the motivation behind their excessive gaming. The results showed that song writing as creative musical process allowed participants to be aware of positive and negative influence of gaming on themselves and express their motivation to change their perception on gaming behavior. Also, the participants reported that the use of musical product for their daily lives could be an effective coping strategy to manage their gaming behaviors and an alternative for gaming. The findings from this study support that group music psychotherapy can be an effective approach to promote awareness of adolescents' motives for excessive internet gaming and to help adolescents better manage their gaming behaviors.

Exploring Factors Affecting Active Video Gaming and General Physical Activity

  • Choi, Ji Hye
    • Journal of Korea Game Society
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    • v.22 no.1
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    • pp.99-108
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    • 2022
  • Despite the widespread use of digital games as a means of promoting physical activity, little is known about the factors that affect active video gaming. Based on the ecological model of health behavior, this study examined how personal, environmental, and social factors would influence active video gaming and general physical activity. The results showed that while all three factors significantly influence general physical activity, social factor is the only factor that affects active video gaming. The finding highlights the importance of social factors in predicting the use of active video games.

Game Use Behaviors Classification of College Students: Focusing on Stress, Satisfaction and Balance of the Basic Psychological Needs (대학생의 게임 이용 행동 군집분류: 스트레스와 기본심리욕구 만족 및 균형을 중심으로)

  • Cho, Uihyeok;Jang, Sungho;Shin, Sungman
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.21 no.7
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    • pp.558-566
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    • 2021
  • This study was conducted to classify college students using games based on the stress, satisfaction and balance of basic psychological needs and to identify how gaming behaviors differ according to the divided clusters. This study used data of 447 college students who used games with the support of JangHoon Scholarship Foundation. As a result, the college students using games were divided into four groups with different characteristics according to stress, satisfaction and balance of basic psychological needs. Also, the level of gaming behavior was different according to the degree of satisfaction of basic psychological needs. The lower the stress and the higher the balance when the level of satisfaction was similar, the lower the level of gaming behaviors was. This study confirmed the importance of satisfactory balance of basic psychological needs as well as satisfaction, and supported the biopsychological perspective by suggesting that there are significant differences in gaming behavior according to clusters.

Comparison between SNS Addiction and Gaming Addiction-Based on the Problem Behavior Theory (문제행동이론을 기반으로 한 SNS 중독과 게임 중독의 비교)

  • DongBack Seo;SeongJae Kim
    • Information Systems Review
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.25-48
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    • 2017
  • As the number of Internet users has increased, the uses of social networking sites (SNSs) and online games have become universal activities across gender and ages. The extensive distribution and the usage of the Internet are beneficial to our society, but its adverse effects, such as Internet addiction, which refers to uncontrollable excessive Internet use, are becoming prevalent. Relevant social costs are also becoming troublesome. SNS and gaming addictions have negative effects on one's life, causing significant social problems. To illustrate different facets of these addictions, Problem Behavior Theory is adopted in the study. How self-esteem and perceived family environment affect SNS addiction and gaming addiction is addressed. The main subjects are Korean university students in their 20s who use SNS and play online games. The relationship between SNS addiction and gaming addiction is also addressed.

Comparing the Behavioral Patterns and Psychological Characteristics of Web Board Gamers and Gamblers

  • Han, Jiwon;Seo, Yeseul;Lee, Choognmeong;Han, Doug Hyun
    • Psychiatry investigation
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    • v.15 no.12
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    • pp.1181-1187
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    • 2018
  • Objective In Korea, online board games, such as "flower cards," are played using virtual money. In contrast, Internet-based gambling (ibGambling) concerns the use of real money to gamble online. We hypothesized that online board gamers using virtual money show less risky behaviors than do gamblers who use real money, and that, in regard to psychological aspects, online board gamers are less depressed and more introverted than online gamblers are. Methods For this study, 100 online board gamers, 100 ibGamblers, 100 offline gamblers (offGamblers), and 100 age- and sex-matched healthy controls were recruited by an online research company. Gambling behavior and self-efficacy were assessed using the Korean Gambling Behavior Scale-high/low factors (KGBS-H/L) and the Gambling Abstinence Self-efficacy Scale (GASS). Additionally, introversion, depression, and mania tendency were assessed. Results Online board gamers had good intentions gaming, as evidenced by their higher KGBS-L scores than ibGamblers and offGamblers, and they showed less risky behaviors, as evidenced by their lower KGBS-H scores than offGamblers. Additionally, online board gamers were less introverted than ibGamblers and less depressed than offGamblers. Conclusion Online board gaming could be a gateway to the world of gambling (ibGambling or OffGambling). However, the higher tendency of online board gamers to engage in good intentioned gaming could help prevent online board gaming from progressing to online or offline gambling.

Internet Gaming Disorder Treatment Options in the Hospital Setting (임상환자를 대상으로 한 인터넷 게임장애의 치료방법 고찰)

  • Park, Jeong Ha;Hyun, Gi Jung;Son, Ji Hyun;Lee, Young Sik
    • Journal of the Korean Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
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    • v.26 no.2
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    • pp.75-85
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    • 2015
  • Internet gaming disorder (IGD), one of the common subtypes of internet addiction, is now classified in Section 3 of DSM-5 and is increasingly regarded as a growing health concern in many parts of the world. Consequently, many psychotherapeutic and psychopharmacological approaches have been considered and some research regarding therapeutic strategies has been conducted. However, treatment of IGD is in its early stages and therefore is not yet well established. This article reviews multiple therapeutic modalities including our own treatment model for IGD according to clinical and biological effects, thus providing suggestions for standard treatment strategies. The two main streams are psychopharmacological treatment and cognitive-behavior treatment, and the cognitive-behavior approach includes cognitive reconstruction, psychoeducation, and parenting coach. Many other non-pharmacological treatments are also recommended for personalized treatment of IGD.

An Empirical Study on the Effects of Regulation in Online Gaming Industry via Vector Autoregression Model (벡터자기회귀(VAR) 모형을 활용한 온라인 게임 규제 영향에 대한 실증적 연구: 웹보드 게임을 중심으로)

  • Moonkyoung Jang;Seongmin Jeon;Byungjoon Yoo
    • Information Systems Review
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.123-145
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    • 2017
  • This study empirically examines the effects of regulation on online gaming. Going beyond ad hoc heuristic approaches on individual behavior, we investigate the effects of regulation on dynamic changes of games or service providers. In particular, we propose three theoretical perspectives: social influence to investigate the regulation effect, the role of prior experience to determine the difference in the regulation effect size through users' prior experience, and network externalities to discover the difference in the regulation effect size according to the number of users on an online gaming platform. We use the vector autoregression methodology to model patterns of the co-movement of online games and to forecast game usage. We find that online gamers are heterogeneous. Therefore, policy makers should make suitable regulations for each heterogeneous group to effectively avoid generating gaming addicts without interrupting the economic growth of the online gaming industry.

An Effect of Gaming Behavior by Mobil Game User on Intention of Continuous Usage (모바일게임 이용자의 게임 태도가 지속사용 의도에 미치는 영향)

  • Shim, Sun-Ae;Im, Cheon-Hyuk;Jung, Hyung-Won
    • Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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    • v.8 no.7
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    • pp.141-149
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    • 2017
  • This study is to determine the relationship between gaming behaviors by mobile game users and intention of continuous use of games. A behavior is a reaction against some subject or event, and in general, it brings consistent action and predictable reaction. For this study, the survey has been performed to adult mobile game users over 20 years old in Korea and China, and the collected data have been used in the hierarchical multiple regression analysis using SPSS 20.0, the statistical package program. As a result of study, if gaming behaviors are not concerned, more male not from Korea (from China) showed higher intention of continuous use. Furthermore, as a result of evaluating the effect of gaming behaviors of mobile game users on intention of continuous use, cognitive behaviors and behavioral attitudes also showed significant positive correlation.

Adolescents' Gaming Disorder Study and Parenting Attitude : Based on the Escape Theory (부모양육태도와 청소년 게임과몰입 연구 : 도피이론을 중심으로)

  • Lee, Daeyoung;Jeoung, Euijun
    • 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.

Analyzing the Differences among Online Gaming Users' Gaming Addiction Prevention Behaviors based on Risk Perception and Self-efficacy : Testing RPA Framework on Korean College Students (온라인 게임 사용자의 위험지각과 자기효능감에 따른 게임 중독 예방행위 간 차이분석 : 국내 대학생을 대상으로 한 위험지각태도 프레임웍을 기반으로)

  • Choi, Byounggu;Wang, ChenWei;Lee, Jae-Nam
    • Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.19-41
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    • 2015
  • Many studies have focused on the influences and outcomes of online game addiction. However, few studies have investigated how the online game addiction prevention behavior differs depending on online game user. In order to fill this gap, this study attempts to classify online game users based on risk perception attitude (RPA) framework. More specifically, this research tries to show online game user can be classified into four groups based on perceived risk of online game addiction and efficacy beliefs of online game addiction protection, and to identify how the groups differ in terms of motivation, information seeking, and behaviors for online game addiction prevention. For this purpose, analysis on survey data from 240 Korean college students who use online game reveals that the users can be classified into responsive, avoidance, proactive, indifference groups. Furthermore, there are differences between groups in terms of motivation, information seeking, and behaviors for online game addiction prevention. This study contributes to expand existing literature by providing tailored guidelines for implementation of online game addiction prevention strategies and policy.