| ObjectiveWith the rapid development of the Internet,the Internet has gradually become an indispensable part of daily life.The college student stage is an important stage in life development,and students learn knowledge or relieve stress through the Internet,but some of them are excessively addicted to online games and neglect their academic and interpersonal situations,which leads to their internet game addiction and further affects their future life development.Based on this,we explore the relationship between college student gamers’ traditional Chinese medicine constitution(TCM constitution),online game flow experience,dispositional flow and internet game addiction,and the mechanism of influence of Chinese medicine constitution,online game flow experience,dispositional flow on internet game addiction based on the I-PACE model theory.Methods.This study consisted of three main parts.The first study was a survey of the current status of college student gamers’ TCM constitution 、 online game flow experience 、dispositional flow and internet game addiction,with a focus on analysing the demographic differences between these four variables.The second study focuses on the relationship between college students’ TCM constitution,online game flow experience,dispositional flow and internet game addiction,based on which the mediating role of internet flow experience between Qi-deficiency constitution and internet game addiction as well as the moderating role of dispositional flow in the second half of the path in this model.And this study examine whether dispositional flow plays a mediating role between college gamers’ balanced constitution and internet gaming addiction.The third study was conducted to observe the effectiveness of online group counselling based on Baduanjin and cognitive behavioural therapy on internet game addiction,based on the theory of "holism of body and spirit" in Chinese medicine,by selecting university gamers who scored ≥5 on the Pathological Online Game Use Questionnaire.ResultsThe first study found that(1)among students with different TCM constitutions,36.2%have a balanced constitution,while 63.8% have an unbalanced constitution.Among those with unbalanced constitutions,the incidence rates of each type of constitution,from highest to lowest,are: Yang deficiency,quality Yin deficiency quality,Qi-deficiency quality,Qi-stagnation quality,special constitutions quality,phlegm dampness quality,blood stasis quality and damp heat quality.There are statistically significant differences in the distribution of TCM constitutions among student gamers of different genders,majors,and hometowns,but no statistically significant differences among those who are only children;(2)There are statistically significant differences in online game flow experience scores between student gamers of different genders,majors,hometowns,and only child status;(3)There are statistically significant differences in dispositional flow scores between student gamers of different genders,majors,and only child status,but no statistically significant differences between those from different hometowns;(4)There are statistically significant differences in internet game addiction scores among college students with different genders and majors,but no statistically significant differences among those from different hometowns and only child status;(5)There are statistically significant differences in the scores of the nine TCM’ constitutions,dispositional flow,and online game flow experience between the group with no tendency to internet game addiction and the group with a tendency to internet game addiction.The second study found that(1)Internet game addiction is negatively correlated with a balanced constitution in the TCM constitution,but positively correlated with imbalanced constitutions such as Qi-deficiency,Yang-deficiency,Yin-deficiency and other six types of imbalanced constitutions.It is also positively correlated with online game flow experience,but negatively correlated with dispositional flow.Online game experience is not significantly correlated with balanced constitution,Yang-deficiency,Yin-deficiency or Qi-stagnation,but it is positively correlated with other types of unbalanced constitutions,with the highest correlation coefficient found between online game experience and Qi-deficiency.It is also positively correlated with dispositional flow.Dispositional flow is positively correlated with a balanced constitution,but negatively correlated with imbalanced constitutions such as Qi-deficiency,Yang-deficiency,Yin-deficiency and other six types of imbalanced constitutions.(2)Online game flow experience plays a mediating role between Qi-deficiency and internet game addiction.(3)In the group without a tendency to become addicted to internet games,dispositional flow moderated the second half of the mediated pathway " Online game flow experience→Internet game addiction ",and the predictive effect of online game flow experience on online game addiction was reduced under conditions of high dispositional flow;while in the group with a tendency towards internet game addiction,the moderated mediation model is not supported.In addition,the study found that after controlling for online game flow experience,dispositional flow plays a mediating role between a balanced constitution and internet game addiction.The third study found that online group counselling based on Baduanjin and cognitive-behavioural therapy can significantly alleviate internet game addiction symptoms among college students,and to some extent improve their levels of balanced constitution and dispositional flow,while reducing their levels of Qi-deficiency.ConclusionOn the one hand,the research results support the I-PACE model and confirm that TCM constitution as a predisposition factor can impact internet game addiction,and this study provides a new perspective for exploring the mechanisms of students’ flow experience and internet game addiction;On the other hand,this study provides a theoretical foundation and practical guide for the intervention of college students’ internet game addiction,and the intervention programme can reduce internet game addiction by improving the balanced constitution and reducing other biased constitution through traditional qigong such as baduanjin and taiji;Moreover,by cultivating the characteristics of college students’ dispositional flow,the risk of internet game addiction can also be reduced. |
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