• Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing
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• v.37 no.5
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• pp.754-761
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• 2007

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore factors related to internet game addiction for adolescents. Method: This study was a cross-sectional survey, and data was collected through self-report questionnaires. Data was analyzed using the SPSS program. Results: In logistic regression analysis, the risk of being addicted to internet games was 2.22 times higher in males than females. Adolescents with low and middle academic performance also had a higher risk(2.08 times and 2.54 times) to become addicted to internet games. For the location of the computer, the risk of becoming addicted to internet games were .01 times lower in the living room or brother or sisters' room than in their own room. The risk of becoming addicted to internet games was 1.18 times higher in the higher usage time of internet games. The risk of becoming addicted to internet games was .49 times lower in the more accepting and autonomic parents' rearing attitude and .02 times lower in the high self-efficacy group than the low group. Conclusion: The result of this study suggests that there are noticeable relationships between internet game addiction and gender, academic performance, location of computer, usage time of internet games, parents' rearing attitude, and self efficacy.

• Child Health Nursing Research
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.383-389
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• 2007

Purpose: In this study, the Internet game addiction level was assessed, and parent-child attachment level associated with the addiction was analyzed. Method: From December 5 to 23, 2005, self-reported questionnaire data were collected from 990 Busan City elementary school students of the 5th and 6th grades. The questionnaire consisted of questions about their characteristic features in playing Internet games based on the K-scale developed by KADO. The data were analyzed using the SPSS WIN 10.0 program. Frequency, percentage, arithmetic mean, and standard deviation, $X^2$-test, ANOVA analysis and Scheffe test were used to analyze the data. Results: 1. With regard to the level of Internet game addiction, 71.2% of the students responded that they were general users, and 6.3%, at high risk for addiction. Mean scores were 103.3 for the high-risk group, 77.7 for the potential risk group, and 55.86 for the general user group. The total mean was 63.74. 2. Mean scores for parent-child attachment levels were 97.1 and 99.6 for father and mother, respectively. Conclusion: These results suggest that a collaborative program to educate and counsel parents to increase the parent-child attachment level needs to be established in protection and recovery programs for Internet game addiction.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.29-37
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• 2015

The purpose of this study was to research on the relationship of Internet Game Addiction to Psycho-emotional Variables(self-identity, depression, meaning of life). The cross-sectional descriptive study design was used. We selected 275 adults through randomised sampling and analysis the result by chi-square test and hierarchial regression method. The result of this study was as follows; The effects of personal characteristics to Internet Game Addiction was sex, age, smoking and family including social characteristics were level of mother's education, father's education, and family economic status in a row. The relationship of Internet Game Addiction to Psycho-Emotional Variables were self-identity and depression. Therefore we suggest that the practical support system for 20's age adult to increase the self-identity and decrease the depression will be applied.

• 한국초등상담교육학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2004.01a
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• pp.105-118
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• 2004

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a group training program designed to control the desire for internet games and to promote self-efficacy and alternative activities. The subjects participating in this study were 32 fifth graders, divided into the experimental group of 16 and the control group of 16, who were carefully selected from 175 children in the fifth grade in S elementary school in J city. All the subjects belong in the top 20% according to the internet game addiction level and spend more than two hours and thirty minutes a day playing computer game. And they participated in the game desire control program, which were consisted of total eight-session' treatment for six weeks. The results of the game addiction diagnosis and self-efficacy measurement were verified and analyzed by ANOVA to verify the effects of the program. As well as, data about average playing time spent on computer games and time the children spent on playing computer games alternative activities were analyzed and collected by the interview and other written materials such as letters from the parents to their children and writings of the children on their feelings about interret games. The results of this study were as follows: The internet game control program was effective in decreasing the degree of game addiction. The children participating in the internet game control program showed greater increase in self-efficacy than those of the control group. The children participating in the program showed a sharp decline in the time spent on playing computer games and greater increase in the time spent on alternative activities than those of the control group.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.75-86
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• 2016

The aim of this study was to compare the factors influencing internet game addiction among middle and high school boys. The data was analysed from "Survey on the Online and Game and Family Leisure Activities of Youth and Children in 2009" conducted by the Korean Youth Policy Institute. According to the results, the average time on the weekends and average time on the holidays, and the leisure constraints had a significant effect on the internet game addiction both groups. On the other hand, there were significant differences in the communication with parents between middle and high school boys. Accordingly, this study suggests a preventive internet game addiction program be developed. In addition, it is important to improve efficient communication skills between children and parents.

• Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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• v.42 no.4
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• pp.99-118
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• 2004

This study examined different individual and environmental factors that affect children's game addiction tendency. As individual variables, game user' motivation, self-control, and self-esteem were included in the analysis. As family variables, communications with mothers, parental control of children's computer use and parental internet use were examined, as school variables, school adjustment and teacher's supervision of children's computer use, and as peer variables, peer group's attitude toward computer games were used. The sample consisted of 994 fifth and sixth grade children. Statistics and methods used for the data analysis were Cronbach's alpha, frequency, percentage, two way ANOVA, Pearson's correlation and Hierarchical Regression. Several major results were found from the analysis. First, boys were addicted more than girls. No difference was found in the addiction tendency between the 5th graders and the 6th graders. Second, game users' motivation, that is, their interest-amusement motive, avoidance motive and aggressive motive, had a positive correlation with their game addiction tendency. However, self-control and self-esteem had a negative correlation with children's game addiction tendency. Third, problematic communications with mothers and parental control of children's computer use had a positive correlation with children's game addiction tendency. Open communications with mothers had a negative correlation with children's game addiction tendency. Fourth, school adjusaent had a negative correlation with children's game addiction tendency. And peer group's attitude towards computer games had a positive correlation with children's game addiction tendency. Fifth, low self-control, peer group's attitude towards computer games, children's interest-amusement motive, avoidance motive, aggressive motive, school lesson adjustment, parental control of children's computer use and school nile adjustment were important predicting variables of boy's game addiction tendency. Avoidance motive, low self-control, interest-amusement motive, peer group's attitude towards computer games, and parental control of children's computer use were important predicting variables of girl's game addiction tendency.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.101-109
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• 2021

This study was conducted to investigate the effects of internet game addiction and self-efficacy on the campus life adaptation of nursing students. The subjects were selected from 182 nursing students registered as college members and data collection was conducted from September 20 to October 3, 2019. The collected data was analyzed based on frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, t-test, ANOVA, Pearson's correlation coefficient, and stepwise multiple regression using the SPSS /WIN 26.0 program. The internet game addiction score of nursing college students was shown to be 1.14±.30 out of four points, the self-efficacy score was shown to be 3.39±.55 out of five points and the campus life adaptation score was shown to be 3.18±.53 out of five points. There was a significant correlation between internet game addiction (r=-.220, p=.003), self-efficacy (r=.649, p<.001), and campus life adaptation. The predictors were self-efficacy (��=.588, p<.001), gender (��=.183, p=.001), and internet game addiction (��=.183, p=.001), which accounted for 45.9% of the variance in the campus life adaptation of nursing students. The results of this study delineate the need for the development and application of diverse programs that can increase self-efficacy and prevent internet game addiction in nursing students.

• Journal of Haehwa Medicine
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.295-302
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• 2007

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.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.17 no.7
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• pp.425-436
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• 2017

This study was done to explore the correlation among internet game addiction, family functioning, offense experience, victimization experience, possibility of peer violence and to identify factors related the possibility of peer violence. Participants were 789 elementary school students with survey. SPSS/WIN(20.0 version) were used to analyze the collected data. Internet game addiction was negatively correlated family functioning and was positively correlated the offense experience, victimization experience, possibility of peer violence. Multiple regression analysis showed the factors as offense experience of peer violence and relationship with teacher significantly accounted for 63.1% of the possibility of peer violence. In conclusion, it is need to health education for prevention of internet game addiction and breaking offense experience. The activating relationship with teachers are alternative plan that prevent to possibility of peer violence.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.17 no.11
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• pp.1325-1334
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• 2014

Recently game addiction of young people has become a social issue. Therefore, many studies, mostly surveys, have been conducted to diagnose game addiction. In this paper, we suggest how to distinguish levels of addiction based on EEG. To this end, we first classify four groups by the degrees of addiction to internet games (High-risk group, Vigilance group, Normal group, Good-user group) using CSG (Comprehensive Scale for Assessing Game Behavior) and then measure their Event Related Potential(ERP) in the Go/NoGo Task. Specifically, we measure the signals of P300, N400 and N200 from the channels of the NoGo stimulus and Go stimulus. In addition, we extract distinct features from the discrete wavelet transform of the EEG signal and use these features to distinguish the degrees of addiction to internet games. The experiments in this study show that High-risk and Vigilance group exhibit lower Go-N200 amplitude of Fz channel than Normal and Good-user groups. In Go-P300 and NoGo-P300 of Fz channel, High-risk and Vigilance groups exhibit higher amplitude than Normal and Good-user group. In Go-N400 and NoGo-N400 of Pz channel, High-risk and Vigilance group exhibit lower amplitude than Normal and Good-user group. The test after the learning study of the extracted characteristics of each frequency band from the EEG signal showed 85% classification accuracy.