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Trends in Child Internet Game Addiction as Induced by Family Strengths and Daily Stress Levels
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Abstract
This study focused on the effects that family strengths and daily stress have up on internet gameaddiction. The subjects of the study were 520 Grade 5 and 6 students currently attending primary schoolsin Seoul. Using the SPSS 17.0 program, frequency analysis and percentage calculation were conducted inorder to reveal the characteristics of genderdistribution and the personal environmental variables of thesubjects. To identify differences between demographic variables and the relationship between variables, at-test, F-test, and regression analysis were performed. The main research results are as follows. Firstly, interms of internet game addiction according to gender, girls showed a higher tendency than boys. In termsof grade level, and students in Grade 6 showed a higher tendency towards addiction than those in Grade5. Students who are the second born in their families or younger showed a higher probability ofdeveloping an online game addiction compared to students who are either an only child or the eldest intheir families. Children with older fathers, those who played games more frequently and for a longerperiod of time, and those who started playing games at an earlier age tended to show higher addictionrates. Secondly, the results indicated that gender and parent-related stress had the biggest effect on childinternet game addiction.