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Relationship between digital game addiction with body mass index, academic achievement, player types, gaming time: A cross-sectional study
Abstract
Digital game addiction was classified as a disease by the World Health Organization. It is characterized by impaired control over gaming and increasing priority given to gaming over other activities. Especially for school-age children, there are concerns about the effects of gaming addiction on health problems that are difficult to treat later and on their future careers. This study was conducted to analyze the relationship between academic achievement, body mass index and player types and computer game addiction of secondary school students. Study participants included 289 students attending fifth and sixth grades in a public school in Sivas province during the 2018-2019 academic year in Turkey. The data were analyzed with hierarchical regression analysis. The study findings revealed that digital game addiction was significantly predicted by gender, academic achievement score, computer and smartphone gameplay per-week, but not significantly predicted by the body mass index and player type variables. These findings suggest that male students with high weekly gameplay on computers and smartphones were exposed to a high risk of digital game addiction, and digital game addiction negatively affects academic achievements of the students. Future studies could be carried on focusing on the games and the types of games played by the students with similar variables.
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Primary Language
English
Subjects
Studies on Education
Journal Section
Research Article
Publication Date
December 10, 2022
Submission Date
August 5, 2022
Acceptance Date
September 12, 2022
Published in Issue
Year 2022 Volume: 5 Number: 4
APA
Polat, A., & Topal, M. (2022). Relationship between digital game addiction with body mass index, academic achievement, player types, gaming time: A cross-sectional study. Journal of Educational Technology and Online Learning, 5(4), 901-915. https://doi.org/10.31681/jetol.1156594
AMA
1.Polat A, Topal M. Relationship between digital game addiction with body mass index, academic achievement, player types, gaming time: A cross-sectional study. JETOL. 2022;5(4):901-915. doi:10.31681/jetol.1156594
Chicago
Polat, Ahmet, and Murat Topal. 2022. “Relationship Between Digital Game Addiction With Body Mass Index, Academic Achievement, Player Types, Gaming Time: A Cross-Sectional Study”. Journal of Educational Technology and Online Learning 5 (4): 901-15. https://doi.org/10.31681/jetol.1156594.
EndNote
Polat A, Topal M (December 1, 2022) Relationship between digital game addiction with body mass index, academic achievement, player types, gaming time: A cross-sectional study. Journal of Educational Technology and Online Learning 5 4 901–915.
IEEE
[1]A. Polat and M. Topal, “Relationship between digital game addiction with body mass index, academic achievement, player types, gaming time: A cross-sectional study”, JETOL, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 901–915, Dec. 2022, doi: 10.31681/jetol.1156594.
ISNAD
Polat, Ahmet - Topal, Murat. “Relationship Between Digital Game Addiction With Body Mass Index, Academic Achievement, Player Types, Gaming Time: A Cross-Sectional Study”. Journal of Educational Technology and Online Learning 5/4 (December 1, 2022): 901-915. https://doi.org/10.31681/jetol.1156594.
JAMA
1.Polat A, Topal M. Relationship between digital game addiction with body mass index, academic achievement, player types, gaming time: A cross-sectional study. JETOL. 2022;5:901–915.
MLA
Polat, Ahmet, and Murat Topal. “Relationship Between Digital Game Addiction With Body Mass Index, Academic Achievement, Player Types, Gaming Time: A Cross-Sectional Study”. Journal of Educational Technology and Online Learning, vol. 5, no. 4, Dec. 2022, pp. 901-15, doi:10.31681/jetol.1156594.
Vancouver
1.Ahmet Polat, Murat Topal. Relationship between digital game addiction with body mass index, academic achievement, player types, gaming time: A cross-sectional study. JETOL. 2022 Dec. 1;5(4):901-15. doi:10.31681/jetol.1156594
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