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- Title
Prevalence and correlates of video gaming addiction among Nigerian in-school adolescents.
- Authors
Onivehu, Adams Ogirima
- Abstract
Video gaming has become a popular phenomenon among in-school adolescents in many parts of the world due to rapid development of the gaming industry in the 21st century. Resultantly, in-school adolescents have access to a broad spectrum of video games with diverse potentials and capabilities for maximal user experience. Whilst video gaming can provide some benefits for in-school adolescents, it can also pose some dire challenges. Thus, video gaming addiction has come to public attention and is gaining traction amongst stakeholders in the Nigerian school system. Hence, this study investigated prevalence rates and correlates of video gaming addiction among in-school adolescents randomly selected from public and private secondary schools in Kwara State, Nigeria. A total of 850 in-school adolescents were sampled from twenty secondary schools. The independent variables (gender, academic performance, life satisfaction, self-esteem, peer influence, perceived level of stress and executive function) were assessed using a bio-data form and standardized scales respectively while the dependent variable (video gaming addiction) was examined using the Game Addiction Scale. Data were subjected to frequency counts, percentage, correlation analysis and multiple regression. The results of this study showed that a majority of the respondents (74%) played offline and online video games, while 13.5% of the respondents were identified as having a video gaming addiction. Gaming addiction was significantly correlated with peer influence, gender, academic performance, executive function and life satisfaction. It was recommended that effective preventive measures should be put in place to curb the menace of video game addiction and its associated effects among Nigerian adolescents.
- Publication
Pedagogická Orientace, 2020, Vol 30, Issue 4, p425
- ISSN
1211-4669
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.5817/PedOr2020-4-425