Online gaming addiction and basic psychological needs among adolescents: the mediating roles of meaning in life and responsibility

Kaya, A, Türk, N, Batmaz, H and Griffiths, MD ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8880-6524, 2024. Online gaming addiction and basic psychological needs among adolescents: the mediating roles of meaning in life and responsibility. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 22 (4), pp. 2413-2437. ISSN 1557-1874

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Abstract

Individuals whose basic needs are naturally satisfied are much less dependent on their environment and more autonomous. Basic psychological needs (i.e., the general motivators of human actions) are significant predictors of online gaming addiction. Moreover, it has been posited that meaning and responsibility in life are at the center of life from an existential point of view. Therefore, a hypothetical model was tested to examine the relationships between basic psychological needs (autonomy, competence, relatedness), online gaming addiction, responsibility, and meaning in life. Data were collected from a sample of 546 participants. Mediation analysis was conducted, and the results indicated that basic psychological needs, online gaming addiction, responsibility, and meaning in life had significant negative and positive relationships. The findings indicated that responsibility and meaning in life had a serial mediating effect in the relationship between basic psychological needs and online gaming addiction. The findings also showed that the inverse relationship between online gaming addiction and basic psychological needs was at least partially explained by meaning in life and responsibility. The results of the present study are of great importance and suggest that interventions to satisfy the basic psychological needs of adolescents may help prevent online gaming addiction.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction
Creators:	Kaya, A., Türk, N., Batmaz, H. and Griffiths, M.D.
Publisher:	Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date:	August 2024
Volume:	22
Number:	4
ISSN:	1557-1874
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1007/s11469-022-00994-9 DOI 1633869 Other
Rights:	© The Author(s) 2023. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Divisions:	Schools > School of Social Sciences
Record created by:	Jeremy Silvester
Date Added:	13 Jan 2023 10:26
Last Modified:	09 Sep 2024 14:22
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/47852

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