(2012) Psychology, 3(4), 310-314.
Ricardo Tejeiro (UCA), Jorge L. Gómez-Vallecillo (UCA), Manuel
Pelegrina (UMA), Agustín
Wallace (UMA) y Enrique Emberley (CEP Campo de Gibraltar)
Full text in / documento completo en: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?paperID=18409
Abstract
Several studies have revealed the existence of a maladaptive pattern of video game use
whose symptoms are quite similar to those of the disorder referred
to as "abuse" in the DSM-IV-TR (APA, 2000). The aim of this paper is to
examine the psychosocial characteristics of the adolescent video
game abusers and to compare them with the risk factors that the literature
associates with substance dependence. For this purpose, two groups ("problem" and "social" players) were
formed with 236 Spanish adolescents aged between 12 and 17 years, by means of
the Problem Video Game Playing questionnaire (PVP; Tejeiro & Bersabe,
2002), and their psychosocial characteristics were then analyzed by means of a
wide battery of tests. Only 37.3% of the problem players showed a psychosocial
pattern similar to the risk factors for dependence; an integral model of
maladaptive behavior is discussed as explanation for these persons' video game
abuse. The other 69.6% of “problem players” only differed from the “social
players” in their overuse of video games (but not in other psychosocial
factors); the social learning approach is suggested for these adolescents’
behavior.
Key
words: video games, adolescence, dependence, abuse,
risk factors.
1 comentario:
Buenas noches Doctor Tejeiro:
Quisiera contarle que he leído varios de sus artículos y han sido de mucha ayuda para mi investigación.
Mi nombre es Sara Sofia Romero Oquendo. Soy estudiante de 9º semestre de medicina en la Unidad Central del Valle del Cauca, en la ciudad de Tulua, en Colombia, y estoy haciendo mi proyecto de investigación sobre la asociación de los videojuegos y el rendimiento o desempeño académico en niños de 9º, 10º y 11º de los colegios de la ciudad de Tulua.
Quisiera preguntarle si podría ayudarme con información, como por ejemplo los cuestionarios para determinar si hay abuso o juego patológico; o información que usted desee compartir conmigo.
Muchas gracias.
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