A Research On The College Students' Mobile Game Addiction

Smart phone has brought people new ways of entertainment,mobile phone games is one of them.Mobile game is a kind of video game,which is a game activity with mobile phone as the medium.Therefore,mobile games not only have the interesting,challenging,interactive,anonymous characteristics of video games,but also have the characteristics of convenience,immediacy and concomitant of mobile media.At present,the phenomenon of mobile game addiction is becoming more and more common,among which college students" addiction has drawn much attention.In this study,we found that the main factors of college students indulging in mobile games are personal factors,social factors,game motivation factors,game function factors and so on.Personal factors include college students' personality traits,college students' psychological needs,college students' ability of self-control,college students' addiction history and so on.Social factors include family environmental factors,school environmental factors,media environmental factors,commercial environmental factors,cultural environmental factors and so on.College students' play motivation includes recreation motivation,evasive motivation,punishment motivation and so on.Mobile game features include interactive,anonymous and challenging features.Multiple factors work together on the mobile phone games addiction of university students.This study holds that the process of college students indulging in mobile games can be divided into four stages:try,flow,enthrallment and extrication,and there are intersections and iterations among the stages.College students' mobile games attempt is driven by curiosity,driven by peers and driven by demand,with the characteristics of contingency,variability and transience,which can not bring steady game experience to college students,but may make them turn to the flow stage of mobile games.The mobile game flow of college students is caused by the subjective enjoyment intention of individual and the objective attraction function of the game.It has the characteristics of concentration,pleasure and ecstasy,which can help college students to rebuild their self-confidence,promote their interpersonal communication,and ease the students have bad emotions.College students' mobile game addiction is caused by personal reasons,social reasons,game motives,game functions and other factors.It has the characteristics of concomitant,compulsive,dependent,tolerant,abstinent,and so on,which leads to the decline of college students' personal ability,the weakness of college students'social existence,the apathy of college students' interpersonal relations and other harmful consequences.The mobile phone game extrication of college students is caused by personal awakening,outside intervention,compulsory quarantine,with the characteristics of randomness,repetition,volatility and so on,which may bring positive effects to college students,or repeat,make students fall into addiction again.This study holds that the mobile game addiction of college students is the result of the interaction and multilevel resonance among individual factors,social factors,game motivation,game function and other factors in the course of the game.In this process,the individual factor is the internal factor,plays the leading role,the other factors are the external factors,play the secondary role.A variety of factors occupy different positions in different stages an play a synergistic role,which ultimately leads to college students indulging in mobile games.Accordingly,this study proposed the intervention countermeasure which the factor intervention and the process intervention unifies.