Video games: Adicction and predictors

Authors

  • Miguel Vallejos Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreal
  • Walter Capa Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreal

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33539/avpsicol.2010.n.18.1924

Keywords:

Addiction, assertiveness, aggressiveness, adolescents, interactive styles (decision-making and tendency to risk), family functioning, academic performance, video games

Abstract

Assesses the way relate the familiar and interactive styles (decision-making and tendency to risk) with the video game addiction among adolescents, as well as the consequences that generates addiction games assertiveness, aggressiveness and academic performance. It employed a stratified probability sample of schoolchildren in state secondary schools Metropolitan Lima, including schoolchildren of both sexes aged between 11 and 18 years. The results indicate that 85% of adolescents have access to video games, even if the boys play more than women, while women (70.6%) and men (94.7%) make use of high videogame. Notable among the places where the games are played the home (40%) and in the booths Internet (42%). As to the relationship between the use of video games and psychological variables (family functioning, decision making and aggressive behavior) are explained variability of the model is 14%, being the most important factor explaining the functionality family (ß = -0.256, p<0.01). We also found that the lower the greater assertiveness and aggressiveness then academic performance is low, relationships that are conditioned by the increased access or use of the games.

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Author Biographies

Miguel Vallejos, Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreal

Licenciado y Magíster por la Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreal. Docente de la Facultad de Psicología,
Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreal, Perú.

Walter Capa, Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreal

Licenciado y Magíster por la Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreal. Docente de la Facultad de Psicología
- Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreal-Perú

Published

2010-12-16

How to Cite

Vallejos, M., & Capa, W. (2010). Video games: Adicction and predictors. Avances En Psicología, 18(1), 103–110. https://doi.org/10.33539/avpsicol.2010.n.18.1924