School belongingness, peer relations, and insomnia as predictors of middle school pupils’ problematic online gaming

Abstract

The focus of this study was to determine the level of problematic online gaming among middle school pupils as related to age, gender, school type, and peer relationships as well as school belongingness and insomnia. A total of 291 middle school pupils constituted the study’s samples, 147 of whom were boys and 144 of whom were girls. One of the study’s purposeful sampling methods, non-random sample methods, was used. In the study, one of the non-random sampling methods purposeful sampling methods was utilised. The dependent variable was problematic online gaming, while the independent variables included the search for peer relationships, school belongingness, and insomnia. Problematic online gaming is the dependent variable, whereas peer relationships, school belongingness, and insomnia are the variables that are independent. To find out if the independent factors predicted the dependent variable, multiple regression analysis was utilised. The regression study revealed that insomnia, school belongingness, peer relationship, age, type of school, and age factors accounted for 30% of the problematic online gaming variable.