Social support as the mediator for the relationship between internet gaming disorder and psychological problems among university students

There has been increasing recognition of internet gaming disorder as a psychiatric problem that is linked with serious impairment and distress and correlated with psychological reactions and social consequences. Thus, this study proposed that psychological problems (stress, anxiety, and depression)...

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Published in:Journal of psychiatric research 2023-08, Vol.164, p.243-250
Main Authors: Malak, Malakeh Z., Shuhaiber, Ahmed.H., Alsswey, Ahmed, Tarawneh, Anwar
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anxiety
Behavior, Addictive - epidemiology
Behavior, Addictive - psychology
Cross-Sectional Studies
Depression
Female
Humans
Internet
Internet Addiction Disorder - epidemiology
Internet gaming disorder
Male
Social Support
Stress
Students
Universities
Video Games - psychology
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Summary:There has been increasing recognition of internet gaming disorder as a psychiatric problem that is linked with serious impairment and distress and correlated with psychological reactions and social consequences. Thus, this study proposed that psychological problems (stress, anxiety, and depression) and social support could be associated with IGD and social support had a mediating role between these psychological problems and IGD among university students in Jordan. A cross-sectional, descriptive correlational design was adopted. The university students (N = 1020) were selected randomly from four universities (two public and two private) in Jordan. A self-structured questionnaire was used to collect data using the Internet Gaming Disorder Test (IGD-20 Test), Depression Anxiety Stress Scales-21 (DASS-21), Multidimensional Social Support Scale (MSPSS), and sociodemographic data. Findings of this study found that the mean age of the participants was 21.38 (S.D ± 2.12) and 55.9% of them were males The prevalence of internet gaming disorder was 12.16% among the participants, where the cut-off point for internet gaming disorder was 71 out of 100. Internet gaming disorder was significantly correlated with stress, anxiety, social support, and depression. However, stress, anxiety, and social support had a direct effect on internet gaming disorder, while social support had the strongest effect on internet gaming disorder. It was found that social support had a mediating role between anxiety and stress (β = −0.172, T-Statistics = 3.92, p 
ISSN:0022-3956
1879-1379
DOI:10.1016/j.jpsychires.2023.06.007