Influence of Mindfulness on Game Addiction-Mediating Role of Emotional Control

Title

Influence of Mindfulness on Game Addiction-Mediating Role of Emotional Control

Creator

Tharumiya A.K.; P R.; Sakthivel K.; K J.; Manicka M.M.K.

Description

In the past few decades, online games have become immensely popular among the younger generation thus leading to online game addiction. Previous researches acknowledge that mindfulness or present-focused awareness may reduce addiction. Moreover, addiction is found to have an impact on the propensity to respond to the situations in the environment in a way that is acceptable to all the people (emotional control). The present study attempts to study the influence of mindfulness and emotional control on game addiction. For this, 187 college students were selected through the Simple Random Sampling method. Personal Profile Sheet, The Online Game Addiction Scale, Mindful Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS) and The Emotional Control Questionnaire, with four dimensions of Rehearsal, Emotional Inhibition, Aggression Control and Benign control were used to collect the data. The study found a significant gender difference in the level of game addiction where boys being more addicted to online games than girls. Mindfulness shows a significant negative influence over Game Addiction. Among the four dimensions of emotional control, the two dimensions viz., rehearsal and benign control show mediation effect between mindfulness and game addiction. However, the mediating role of emotional inhibition and aggression control was not significantly demonstrative. The Author(s) 2024.

Source

Psychological Reports

Date

2024-01-01

Publisher

SAGE Publications Inc.

Subject

Emotional control; game addiction; mindfulness and college students

Coverage

Tharumiya A.K., Department of Psychology, School of Social Sciences, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Karnataka, Bangalore, India; P R., Department of Psychology, PSG College of Arts and Science, Tamil Nadu, Coimbatore, India; Sakthivel K., Department of Psychology, PSG College of Arts and Science, Tamil Nadu, Coimbatore, India; K J., Department of Psychology, PSG College of Arts and Science, Tamil Nadu, Coimbatore, India; Manicka M.M.K., School of Business and Management, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Karnataka, Bangalore, India

Rights

Restricted Access

Relation

ISSN: 332941; CODEN: PYRTA

Format

Online

Language

English

Type

Review

Identifier

https://doi.org/10.1177/00332941241232940

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