Study of game addiction, aggression and parenting style among college students

Abstract

The current study aims to examine the relationship between game addiction, aggression, and parenting style among college students to gain insight how these variables affect the samples. correlational design was used. Total sample of 100 participants (male 50, female 50) age ranging from 18 to 25 from Lovely Professional University, Punjab were participated in the study, selected through judgement sampling method. Three scales including Game Addiction Scale (GAS) questionnaire by Lemmens et al.(2011),Aggression Questionnaire developed by Bussand Perry(1992), and Parenting style scale is developed by Divya and Manikandan (2013)were used to collect data on three variables. The results indicated that there is no significant relationship between game addiction and parenting style. There is a significant relation between aggression and parenting style, as well as between aggression and game addiction. Additionally, gaming addiction also found to have gender differences. It was found that there was no relation between parenting style and gameaddiction, but different parenting styles can lead to aggressive behaviour.Moreover, increase in the level of game addiction can cause increase in aggression, and game addiction varies with gender as malesdisplayhigher game addictive behaviourthan females.