Personality Traits and Online gaming Addiction: Mediating role of Mental Health
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https://doi.org/10.3456/17hyjh77Abstract
The purpose of this study was to examine how mental health may act as mediator and personality traits in online gaming addiction. It was hypothesized that personality traits and online gaming are likely to be related and mental health will mediate between personality and gaming addiction. The data was collected from students from Lahore city (N=300) with the age range 17-35 (M=24.6; SD=3.67) of which 160 were males and 140 were females. Big Five Inventory, Mental Health subscales of Problematic Online Gaming Questionnaire (POGQ) and Game Addiction Scale were used as assessment measures. Results revealed that all personality traits have negative correlation with gaming addiction except neuroticism. It has significant positive relationship with gaming addiction. The findings can be beneficial for online gamers' families and therapists, who may utilize the findings to evaluate some of the aspects of playing online games for therapeutic intervention.
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