In:
SUCHT, Hogrefe Publishing Group, Vol. 59, No. 3 ( 2013-01), p. 153-164
Abstract:
Aim: The aim of this article is to work out the differential significance of risk factors of media usage, personality and social environment in order to explain problematic video game usage in childhood and adolescence. Method: Data are drawn from the Berlin Longitudinal Study Media, a four-year longitudinal control group study with 1 207 school children. Data from 739 school children who participated at 5 th and 6 th grade were available for analysis. Result: To explain the development of problematic video game usage, all three areas, i. e. specific media usage patterns, certain aspects of personality and certain factors pertaining to social environment, must be taken into consideration. Video game genre, video gaming in reaction to failure in the real world (media usage), the children’s/adolescents’ academic self-concept (personality), peer problems and parental care (social environment) are of particular significance. Conclusion: The results of the study emphasize that in future – and above all also longitudinal – studies different factors regarding social environment must also be taken into account with the recorded variables of media usage and personality in order to be able to explain the construct of problematic video game usage. Furthermore, this will open up possibilities for prevention.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0939-5911
,
1664-2856
DOI:
10.1024/0939-5911.a000247
Language:
German
Publisher:
Hogrefe Publishing Group
Publication Date:
2013
detail.hit.zdb_id:
1066695-3
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2089041-2
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