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Interpersonal dependency and online gaming addiction

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: The present study explores the relationship between social motivations and addiction to online gaming and if that possible connection can be explained by the personality traits responsible for social functioning. METHODS: We employ Bernstein’s concept of interpersonal dependency...

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Autores principales: Škařupová, Kateřina, Blinka, Lukas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Akadémiai Kiadó 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5322987/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26690326
http://dx.doi.org/10.1556/2006.5.2016.002
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description BACKGROUND AND AIMS: The present study explores the relationship between social motivations and addiction to online gaming and if that possible connection can be explained by the personality traits responsible for social functioning. METHODS: We employ Bernstein’s concept of interpersonal dependency to distinguish healthy dependency, dysfunctional detachment, and destructive overdependence, and Charlton and Danforth’s conceptualisation of online gaming addiction and high engagement. An online questionnaire was administered to a self-nominated sample of 4,074 online gamers. Two regression models were constructed to separately explain gaming addiction and high engagement using social motivations to play, while controlling for age, gender, and time spent online. RESULTS: High scores on subscales measuring dysfunctional detachment and destructive overdependence were positively associated with online gaming addiction, while healthy dependency was negatively correlated with addiction scores. In contrast, the overall role of social motivation was negligible. DISCUSSION: People with healthy relationship profiles are less likely to develop problematic patterns of online gaming. High in-game engagement, although sharing some factors with addiction, was only poorly explained by the study variables, suggesting the mutual exclusiveness of addiction and engagement.
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spelling pubmed-53229872017-03-02 Interpersonal dependency and online gaming addiction Škařupová, Kateřina Blinka, Lukas J Behav Addict Full-Length Report BACKGROUND AND AIMS: The present study explores the relationship between social motivations and addiction to online gaming and if that possible connection can be explained by the personality traits responsible for social functioning. METHODS: We employ Bernstein’s concept of interpersonal dependency to distinguish healthy dependency, dysfunctional detachment, and destructive overdependence, and Charlton and Danforth’s conceptualisation of online gaming addiction and high engagement. An online questionnaire was administered to a self-nominated sample of 4,074 online gamers. Two regression models were constructed to separately explain gaming addiction and high engagement using social motivations to play, while controlling for age, gender, and time spent online. RESULTS: High scores on subscales measuring dysfunctional detachment and destructive overdependence were positively associated with online gaming addiction, while healthy dependency was negatively correlated with addiction scores. In contrast, the overall role of social motivation was negligible. DISCUSSION: People with healthy relationship profiles are less likely to develop problematic patterns of online gaming. High in-game engagement, although sharing some factors with addiction, was only poorly explained by the study variables, suggesting the mutual exclusiveness of addiction and engagement. Akadémiai Kiadó 2016-03 2015-12-12 /pmc/articles/PMC5322987/ /pubmed/26690326 http://dx.doi.org/10.1556/2006.5.2016.002 Text en © 2016 Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium for non-commercial purposes, provided the original author and source are credited.
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