Family Communication, Peer Relationship and Game Addiction among Adolescents

Aim: The objective of the present study is to examine the relationship between family communications, peer relationship and game addiction among adolescents and to examine the difference in the level of family communications, peer relationship and game addiction among adolescents across sociodemographic variables. Method: The sample selected for the present study consists of 150 adolescents 74 females and 76 males from Attapady, Kerala, and their age range was between 12-18 years. The data was collected directly from the participants by distributing questionnaires using a purposive sampling method. Participants were given Inventory of Parents and Peer Attachment-Revised (IPPA) developed by Armsden and Greenberg, (1987) and Game Addiction Scale for adolescents (GAS) developed by Jeroen et al., (2016). The instruments were administered offline and the data was analysed by using SPSS very specifically Shapiro-Wilk test, Spearman’s rank correlation and Mann-Whitney U Test. Result: The results indicate that there is a significant relationship between family communications, peer relationship and game addiction among adolescents. There was no significant difference in level of family communications, peer relationship and game addiction among adolescents across gender.