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Seemi Salahuddin

Lahore College for Women University , Pakistan

Title: Online gaming addiction In teenage boys

Abstract

The present study is conducted to assess the online gaming addiction, narcissistic personality, anger expression and social interaction among young teenage boys. It is hypothesized that there will be a significant positive relationship between anger expression, narcissistic personality and online gaming addiction in young teenage boys. It is also hypothesized that there will be significant negative relationship between social interaction and online gaming addiction. The sample consisted of 300 teenage boys  ( N= 300)  with age range of 13 to 16 years. Correlational research design is used along with the non probability sampling technique. Data is collected from five private schools of Lahore. The data is accumulated by using Anger Expression scale (Shafaqat, 2016), Narcissistic Personality Scale (Ames et al.,2006) in urdu version (Zafar & kausar,2016),Social Interaction and technology use questionnaire (Henderson,2008) in urdu version ( Zafar & kausar,2016) and Gaming Addiction Scale (Lemmens et al.,2011) in urdu version ( Zafar & kausar,2016). There is a significant positive relationship between Anger Expression and Gaming addiction among young teenage boys (r=.25**,P <.01). But an insignificant relationship between narcissistic personality , anger expression (r=.07) and gaming addiction (r=.09) is found. There is a significant negative relationship between social interaction and gaming addiction (r= -.10*,P <.05) Whereas anger expression is a significant positive predictor and social interaction is a significant negative predictor of online gaming addiction. The findings of this research will be helpful in determining the role of anger expression and social interaction as the possible causes of online gaming addiction.

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