NDLI: Turning Data into People: Player Perspectives on Game Addiction

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Nielsen, Rune Kristian Lundedal
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	Internet gaming disorder, also known as video game addiction and pathological gaming, has officially been proposed as a psychiatric disorder. Numerous studies have investigated the prevalence of the disorder, but the prevalence rates that they arrive at vary in the extreme (from 0.6% to 44.5%). This discrepancy between studies inevitably raises questions about what they actually measure. To explore this further five young men who were candidates for this new diagnosis where asked to fill out a questionnaire probing pathological gaming and interviewed about how they understood the questions and their thoughts on video game addiction in general. Thus, this paper presents the results of a qualitative investigation of the face-validity of quantitative research on video game addiction. The interviews showed that the respondents often misunderstood the intention of the questions, misjudged the severity of the negative effects that the questions probed and often interpreted the questions very differently. Only one of the respondents believed pathological gaming to be a primary disorder, but he also believed it to promote more positive than negative effects. The rest of the respondent either did not believe in the disorder at all or believed it to be secondary to other problems, such as anxiety or depression.
Starting Page	76
Ending Page	83
File Size	185681
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781467378741
DOI	10.1109/iTAG.2015.17
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2015-10-22
Publisher Place	United Kingdom
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Computers Pathology Psychology Video game questionnaires Games Internet Labeling Game addiction Excessive gaming Interviews Internet gaming addiction
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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