The Researches On University Students' Game Addiction Criteria And Its Influence Factors

The psychologists have been researched the computer addiction of university students, and acquired plentiful production. The empirical study of computer games addiction is very deficient. For deeply investigating the computer game addiction of university students, finding the potential and tendency of special area, Observation, interview and questionnaires were used to explore the computer game addiction of university students in this research. First,Based on an Exploratory Factor Analysis on the self-designed questionnaire of a computer game addiction and high engagement questionnaire for university students and used Confirmatory Factor Analysis by LISREL software, the structure of the computer game addiction and high engagement for university students was testified. Second, According to the exploring factor analysis's result and the frequency analysis result discovered the standard of game addiction has the core criteria and peripheral criteria. At last, By questionnaire inquiries,in the university,Concretely investigate addition to computer games and Personality particularity of additioner to computer games on the spot. By inquiries,it suggests the instance of addiction to computer games for current undergraduates and corresponding Personality traits.The major findings are as following:1. The questionnaire of a computer game addiction and high engagement questionnaire for university students has high reliability and validity so that it can be used to evaluate university students'computer game behavioral.2. The standard of game addiction has the core criteria and peripheral criteria. the core criteria includes behavioral salience, conflict, withdrawal symptoms and relapse; the peripheral criteria includes tolerance, euphoria and cognitive salience.3. there are remarkable differences on aspects of demography among computer game addiction students, such as the aspects of sex, grade and major. In specific, there are the more males than females addicted on computer games; there are more senior students than junior students on computer games among college; there are more students majoring in science having computer game addiction tendency than the students majoring in literature; there are no remarkable differences on aspects of background among computer game addiction students.4. there are remarkable differences on personality between computer game addiction(high engagement) and non-computerr game addiction(low engagement) among college students. In specific, there are remarkable differences on extraversion-introversion, psychoticism and neuroticism factors in EPQ scale between computer game addiction(high engagement) and non-computerr game addiction(low engagement) among college students.