Examining the Role of Individuals' Need for Online Social Interactions and Interpersonal Incompetence in Game Addiction

Sarbottam Bhagat; Dan J. Kim

Examining the Role of Individuals' Need for Online Social Interactions and Interpersonal Incompetence in Game Addiction

Sarbottam Bhagat
, Dan J. Kim

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Abstract

Because online game addiction has become one of the serious social computing issues related to public health, there is an unprecedented need to explore and understand online game addiction from a psychosocial perspective. Extant studies have empirically tested the effects of and the relationship among prominent psychological distresses such as depression, loneliness and aggression on game addiction, but few studies have explored the relationships among individuals' need for online social interaction, interpersonal incompetence and self-regulation (control) and their effects on game addiction. Additionally, the mediating role of individuals' need for online social interaction in online game addiction has neither been proposed nor empirically tested. This study examines addiction through the lens of individuals' need for online social interaction, interpersonal incompetence, self-regulation and loneliness as a psychological distress. More specifically, the purpose of this study is to understand the mediation effect of individuals' need for online social interaction on game addiction.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	24th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2018
Publisher	Association for Information Systems
ISBN (Print)	9780996683166
State	Published - 2018
Externally published	Yes
Event	24th Americas Conference on Information Systems 2018: Digital Disruption, AMCIS 2018 - New Orleans, United States Duration: Aug 16 2018 → Aug 18 2018

Publication series

Name	Americas Conference on Information Systems 2018: Digital Disruption, AMCIS 2018

Conference

Conference	24th Americas Conference on Information Systems 2018: Digital Disruption, AMCIS 2018
Country/Territory	United States
City	New Orleans
Period	8/16/18 → 8/18/18

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being

Keywords

loneliness
MMORPGs
Online game addiction
online social interaction
self-regulation
social incompetence

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Information Systems

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Examining the Role of Individuals' Need for Online Social Interactions and Interpersonal Incompetence in Game Addiction. / Bhagat, Sarbottam; Kim, Dan J.
24th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2018. Association for Information Systems, 2018. (Americas Conference on Information Systems 2018: Digital Disruption, AMCIS 2018).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Bhagat, S & Kim, DJ 2018, Examining the Role of Individuals' Need for Online Social Interactions and Interpersonal Incompetence in Game Addiction. in 24th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2018. Americas Conference on Information Systems 2018: Digital Disruption, AMCIS 2018, Association for Information Systems, 24th Americas Conference on Information Systems 2018: Digital Disruption, AMCIS 2018, New Orleans, United States, 8/16/18.

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