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Relationship of Internet Game Addiction and Autonomic Function in Adolescents
Author(s) -
Kim NaHyun,
Kong In Deok
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
the faseb journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.709
H-Index - 277
eISSN - 1530-6860
pISSN - 0892-6638
DOI - 10.1096/fasebj.27.1_supplement.936.10
Subject(s) - addiction , the internet , anxiety , psychology , christian ministry , clinical psychology , distress , descriptive statistics , psychiatry , computer science , statistics , philosophy , theology , mathematics , world wide web
The purpose of this study was to identify the relationship of internet game addiction and autonomic function in adolescents. The subjects of this study were 140 high school students. Data were collected from July to September, 2012, using a questionnaire for measuring internet game addiction, stress and anxiety, and blood serum cortisol level for autonomic function. Data were analyzed using descriptive analysis, t‐test, ANOVA and Pearson correlation coefficient with SPSS/WIN 15.0. The stress level of internet game addiction group was significant higher than the stress level of the non‐addiction group (t=−5.06, p <.001). The anxiety score was also significant high in the group of internet game addiction (t=−4.90, p <.001). Serum cortisol level was higher in internet game addiction group than non‐addiction adolescents. There were significant positive correlations between daily internet game time and the score of stress and anxiety. These results showed that internet game addiction could increase sympathetic activities in high school adolescents. Thus, nursing approach to relieve the internet game addiction could be helpful to prevent cardiovascular distress due to autonomic imbalance in their future. [This research was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (2012R1A1A4A01012884)]