| With the development and popularization of internet, it deeply influences our life, study and work. Especially, the integration of internet and game not only generates a new and rising industry, but also changes people's life consumedly. As to the adolescents, online game has became an important amusement style for them. However, on-line game is two blades of a sword. Its negative influences have been emerged. The news reported that the adolescents idle their studies away, or leave their home to go out and so on. So it has became a social difficult problem for the adolescents indulged in the on-line game. It is useful to help them use the internet healthily, and offer a theorical and practical referrence to explore the online game addiction of adolescents and probe its influential factors.This study, based on the comprehensive analysis of the studies of online game addiction, aiming at the existing problems of the study of online game addiction, starting with the two angles between player and online game, explores the influential factors of online game addiction; exerting technology of factor analysis, provides the measurement instrument of online game characteristics scale and accords with index of psychometrics. It systematically discusses the levels, characteristics and influential factors of adolescents' online game addiction, analysizes relations between motivation, personality, online game self-efficacy , online game characteristics and online game addiction;probes and construes the relationship between motivation, personality characteristics, online game self-efficacy , online game characteristics and online game addiction by means of technology of regression analysis and SEM( structural equation model). According to literature and interview, this study farther validates the influential factors of online game addiction of adolescents. The research conclusions are below in detail:1 The level of online game addiction of adolescent students shows two kinds of levels: light, weigh. The two levels prevails frequently more than 15.6% in total, of the two light about 13.1%, weigh about 2.5%. There is not distinct sex difference, school types difference and family nurture styles difference.2 On characteristics and behaviors of players, the addictive scores of boys' are higher than girls'; the addictive scores of middle school students' are higher than college students', the addictive scores of democratic style of family nurture styles are lower than the others. Online game addicted players also spent more time on playing the online games, and behaved sociality and intercourse in the online game, acted the roles which are different styles in reality. The results of online game addiction also indicated that they have some bad adjustment in the true-life.3 The self-designed online game characteristics scale is a credible and effective tool for discriminating the attraction of online game.4 There is significant difference on motivation, personality, online game self-efficacy and online game characteristics between online game addicted players and ordinary players. The present study indicates that online game addicted players are generally characterized to be of such motivation aspects as high self-affirmation, freedom fetters and interpersonal relationship, of such personal features as high neuroticism, lower openness, agreeableness and self-esteem, of high online game self-efficacy.5 There is a significant relationship between player's motive to play on-line game, personality, online game self-efficacy, online game characteristics and on-line game addiction. Player's motivation had significant positive correlation with online game addiction. Online" game addiction had significant negative correlation with openness, agreeableness, conscientiousness, self-esteem; and had positive correlation with neuroticism. Player's online game self-efficacy had significant negative correlation with online game addiction. The different levels of online game self-efficacy had significantly difference with online game addiction. Furthermore, player's motive to play on-line game, personality, online game self-efficacy and online game characteristics are significant predictors to online game addiction.6. Player's personality, motivation, online game self-efficacy and online game characteristics influence online game addiction directly. In all these factors, motivation is the strongest influence to online game addiction. It is proposed that Player's personality and online game characteristics also influence online game addiction with mediated effect by motivation and online game self-efficacy.
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