• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.99-110
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• 2021

WHO passed the ICD-11 amendment in 2019, which included gaming disorder, and there are confronted opinions whether this should be listed in the revision of the KCD in Korea. This study explains the consent and opposition to the listing of gaming disorder, and then investigates the effect of the listing of gaming disorder and the adoption of gaming addiction tax. The results of this study find that the listing of gaming disorder and the adoption of gaming addiction tax could negatively affect the investment value and the global national competitiveness of the Korean game industry.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.19-32
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• 2022

This study examined how the use of co-game play, which implies specific behavioral condition, changes the influence and direction of the sensation seeking, gender, and identity stability, which are predictors on game addiction. The results of this study are as follows. First, sensation seeking had no significant effect on game addiction. However, the main effect of co-play on game addiction was confirmed. Second, the moderating effects of gender on co-play and game addiction were significant. It indicates that co-play has a greater impact on game addiction in female than male.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2015.07a
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• pp.222-223
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• 2015

본 연구는 인터넷 게임중독을 치료할 수 있는 통합적 치료방안을 제시하였다. 기존에는 예방을 강조한다든지 게임클리닉센터를 통해 중독자에게 약물치료라든지 심리치료를 받게 하였다. 그러나 본 연구는 크게 세 가지 관점-인터넷 게임에 대한 문화적 이해, 인터넷 게임에 대한 심리치료, 인터넷 게임에 대한 물리치료적 접근-에 포커스를 둔 통합적 치료 방안을 제시하였다.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.107-120
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• 2020

Since the revision of the ICD-11 of the WHO, the level of social discourse on internet game use disorders has been increasing. However, existing studies have mixed terms and causal relationships with game use disorder or game addiction. This study was conducted with high school students aged 16 to 18, focusing on internet game addiction. As a result of the analysis, the greater the obstacles to daily life and self-regulation, the higher the risk of falling into internet game addiction. This study has a significance in reestablishing the causal relationship of Internet game addiction.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.15 no.10
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• pp.339-348
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• 2017

This study was conducted to examine the differences of anger expression style and cognitive characteristics among adolescents depending on the level of game addiction and game engagement. 420 high school boys were administered the Game Addiction/Engagement Scale, Behavioral Anger Response Questionnaire to measure anger expression style, and Irrational Belief Scale to measure cognitive characteristics. The results of correlation analyses showed that addiction had positive correlations with all the irrational belief factors and behavior anger factors except for assertion and avoidance. Engagement was positively correlated with all the variables except for direct anger-out, avoidance, and self-downing. Participants were divided into three groups depending on the level of addiction and engagement. Addiction high risk-low engagement group showed the lowest scores on support-seeking and the highest scores on diffusion and self-downing. Addiction high risk-high engagement group showed the highest scores on direct anger-out. Based on these findings, it was suggested that counselling strategies for adolescents at high risk of game addiction need to be varied depending on the level of game engagement.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.53-64
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• 2013

This study investigated how parents' parenting attitude and youth's subjective class identification influence on game addiction. Total 177 youths from 16 to 24 participated an online survey. According to the results, parents' excessive expectation and youths' high level of self-control were associated with low level of game addiction. We divided a total into two groups; low subjective class identification group vs. high subjective class identification group based on the subjective class identification(SCI) scores. In low SCI group, excessive expectation and high level of self-control were associated with low level of game addiction. On the contrary, in high SCI group, only interference was associated with low level of game addiction. Parents' certain parenting attitude variables and individuals' level of SCI is strongly related to addictive use of game media and other various type of new media.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.19 no.10
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• pp.364-371
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• 2019

The World Health Organization (WHO) announced the 11th International Classification System (ICD-11), which classifies game addiction as a disease in 2018. Sin stocks are defined as the companies that have negative addictive properties and are taxed on social costs. If a game disorder is listed in the disease classification system in Korea, it is highly likely that Korean game companies may be considered as sin stocks that causes negative addictive properties and social costs such as the game addiction and the game addiction tax. This suggests that game companies could be newly included in the scope of sin stocks in Korea. In this study, we examine the effect of the inclusion of game companies in the scope of sin stocks on the job preferences of game companies. We found that there is a high level of opposition to the opinion of the listing sin stocks of game companies, and a high degree of addiction and gambling was suggested as the cause of the game companies being classified as sin stocks. We also found that firm value and job preference would be decrease if a game company was classified as sin stocks. The study is meaningful in that it suggests that game companies can be perceived negatively as sin stocks due to the disease code of game disorder, which has recently emerged as a social issue. Also, this study will contribute to the academia and market participants by reporting statistically the effect of the classification of sin stocks in game companies on job preferences for game companies.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.29-37
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• 2015

The purpose of this study was to research on the relationship of Internet Game Addiction to Psycho-emotional Variables(self-identity, depression, meaning of life). The cross-sectional descriptive study design was used. We selected 275 adults through randomised sampling and analysis the result by chi-square test and hierarchial regression method. The result of this study was as follows; The effects of personal characteristics to Internet Game Addiction was sex, age, smoking and family including social characteristics were level of mother's education, father's education, and family economic status in a row. The relationship of Internet Game Addiction to Psycho-Emotional Variables were self-identity and depression. Therefore we suggest that the practical support system for 20's age adult to increase the self-identity and decrease the depression will be applied.

• Proceedings of The KACE
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• 2017.08a
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• pp.231-234
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• 2017

4차 산업혁명 시대에 접어드는 중심에 살고 있는 청소년들에게 스마트미디어는 삶의 가장 중요한 일부분이다. 미래창조과학부에서 발표한 2016년 조사에서 만 6세 이상 85%(2015년 대비 2.5%p${\uparrow}$)가 스마트 기기를 보유하고 있는 것으로 나타났다. 스마트기기의 보유율 증가는 게임 플랫폼으로 접근성이 높아지는 것을 의미하고 모바일 게임에 대한 과몰입 위험도가 커진다. 많은 연구와 논쟁이 이루어지는 온라인 게임에 대한 과몰입 대비에 비해 모바일 게임 과몰입 대책은 전무한 실정이다. 본 연구에서는 게임 과몰입에 가장 취약한 중학생을 대상으로 모바일 게임 제어 시스템을 통해 학생들이 자기 주도적으로 모바일 게임 과몰입에서 벗어날 수 있게 유도하였다. 학생들이 해당 시스템을 평상시에 활용했을 때 효율성과 실제 구현에 있어 고려해야 할 사항에 대해 알아보고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.821-824
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• 2006

The purpose of this thesis is to grasp the actual conditions of enjoins the computer games of full 5 years old children in a kindergarten as basical datas to explore ways of program which protects overimmersion in the Internet games. we used 'The early children's actual renditions of enjoying the computer games' making up a question papers which are established questions by me based on the characteristic of research object and preceding research about diagnosis table of addicted internet in Young and passed confidence and propriety.