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| Published: July 28, 2024
Is Video Game Addiction Promoting FOMO?
Ph.D Scholar, Department of Psychology, Swami Vivekananda University, India
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Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Swami Vivekananda University, India
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DIP: 18.01.053.20241203
DOI: 10.25215/1203.053
ABSTRACT
The present study focuses on the level of Fear of Missing Out and Family Functioning on Video Game addiction. 100 adolescents took part in this study where 39 were female and 61 were male. The age range was 13-19 years. The measurements used were game addiction scale (lemmens et al, 2011), Fear of Missing Out scale (Przybylski, Murayama, DeHann, & Gladwell, 2013) and The McMaster Family Assessment Device (Nathan B. Lawrence M. Baldwin, Duane S. Bishop,1983). The results revealed that the correlational analysis indicated that females were more video game addicted. Medium and low video game addiction were correlated with problem solving High video game addiction was correlated with family roles, Low video game addiction was correlated with affective involvement, medium and low video game addiction were correlated with behavioural control.
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© 2024, Ghosh, E. & Mukherjee, P.
Received: June 24, 2024; Revision Received: July 25, 2024; Accepted: July 28, 2024
Dr. Papia Mukherjee @ papiam@svu.ac.in
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ISSN 2348-5396
ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.053.20241203
10.25215/1203.053
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Published in Volume 12, Issue 3, July-September, 2024