GAMING DISORDER AND PARANOIA: INVESTIGATING IDEATIONS AMONG FEMALE ADOLESCENTS IN ONLINE GAMING COMMUNITIES
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Keywords
Gaming, Disorder, Psychological, Girls, School, College
Abstract
The role of online gaming is quite significant at the present time. Although researchers in the past has made many efforts to understand various aspects of it, the literature about the same focusing on women gamers has been lacking. The study here understood the gap and carried out this extensive quantitative study to make several interesting highlights. The results are understood by investigating 300 school going and 300 college going girls who are actively involved in the world of online gaming. The gaming disorder levels is the first aspect that is measured across these girls followed by their mental health components. The world of gaming has been stereotyped as male dominated and hence the number of studies focusing on women gamers are limited. This study enquired the situation of female gamers at an early stage i.e., adolescence and investigated in detail about it. The results have shown the areas of mental well-being such as self-esteem, self-identity and psychological well-being where these girls need help and focus. Further, the role of the type of educational institute is quite elaborately discussed here. The need to understand the root cause of behavioural influences in areas such as online gaming is the need to the hour and the study here is able to generate interesting results in association to the same.
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26. Xiang, G.-X., Zhang, Y.-H., Gan, X., Qin, K.-N., Zhou, Y.-N., Li, M., & Jin, X. (2022). Cyberbullying and internet gaming disorder in Chinese youth: The role of positive youth development attributes. Frontiers in Public Health, 10. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.1017123
27. Ying Ying, C., Awaluddin, S. M., Kuang Kuay, L., Siew Man, C., Baharudin, A., Miaw Yn, L., Sahril, N., Omar, M. A., Ahmad, N. A., & Ibrahim, N. (2020). Association of Internet Addiction with Adolescents’ Lifestyle: A National School-Based Survey. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(1), 168. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18010168
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Richa Yadav. (2023). GAMING DISORDER AND PARANOIA: INVESTIGATING IDEATIONS AMONG FEMALE ADOLESCENTS IN ONLINE GAMING COMMUNITIES. Journal of Population Therapeutics and Clinical Pharmacology, 30(14). https://doi.org/10.53555/ed877v45
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Richa Yadav. (2023). GAMING DISORDER AND PARANOIA: INVESTIGATING IDEATIONS AMONG FEMALE ADOLESCENTS IN ONLINE GAMING COMMUNITIES. Journal of Population Therapeutics and Clinical Pharmacology, 30(14). https://doi.org/10.53555/ed877v45