Open AccessGaming disorder among medical college students from India: Exploring the pattern and correlates
Author(s) -
Swarndeep Singh,
Neha Dahiya,
Aakanksha Bharti Singh,
Rajesh Kumar,
Yatan Pal Singh Balhara
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
industrial psychiatry journal/industrial psychiatry journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0976-2795
pISSN - 0972-6748
DOI - 10.4103/ipj.ipj_96_18
Subject(s) - patient health questionnaire , the internet , extant taxon , clinical psychology , preference , depression (economics) , cross sectional study , mental health , psychology , sample (material) , association (psychology) , addiction , medicine , psychiatry , family medicine , depressive symptoms , anxiety , world wide web , computer science , chemistry , macroeconomics , pathology , chromatography , evolutionary biology , economics , psychotherapist , biology , microeconomics
In the extant literature, apart from few published case reports describing patients with severe form of gaming disorder (GD), there is a lack of studies describing the pattern and correlates of GD existing in the Indian settings. Thus, the present study aimed to explore the extent and pattern of gaming behavior in a sample of medical college students from India and explore its association with the sociodemographic, psychological (depressive symptoms), and Internet gaming characteristics.