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Video Gaming in a Hyperconnected World: A Cross-sectional Study of Heavy Gaming, Problematic Gaming Symptoms, and Online Socializing in Adolescents.
Comput Human Behav
March 2017
Drs. Michelle Colder Carras, Tamar Mendelson, and Rashelle Musci are with the Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland, USA; Drs. Antonius Van Rooij and Dike Van de Mheen are with IVO Addiction Research Institute in Rotterdam, The Netherlands and Erasmus MC, University Medical Center in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Dr. Van Rooij is also with iMinds-MICT-Ghent University, Department of Communication Sciences in Belgium and Dr. Van de Mheen is with Maastricht University, Department of Health Promotion in Maastricht, The Netherlands. Dr. Qian-Li Xue is with the Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland and the Center on Aging and Health, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland.
Aims: Examining online social interactions along with patterns of video gaming behaviors and game addiction symptoms has the potential to enrich our understanding of disorders related to excessive video game play.
Methods: We performed latent class analysis in a sample of 9733 adolescents based on heavy use of games, social networking and instant messaging, and game addiction symptoms. We used latent class regression to determine associations between classes, psychosocial well-being and friendship quality.