Abstract

This study was to analysis social and psychological variables predicting violence game addiction of adolescents in the internet. The specific purpose of this study were to explore 1) if social and psychological variables differed among the addiction group and the nonaddiction group of violence game. 2) if the relative importance of various social and psychological variables affecting violence game addiction. For this, a sample of 871 male and female 2grade students in high school completed a questionnaire survey. In result, first, the addiction group and the non-addiction group significantly differed in their sex, shool-division, school-achivement in social and economic variables, and all psychological variables in psychological variables. Second, access of the personal reason and avoidence reason in violence game, control of computer use, internet delinquency, disinhibition, school-achivement, aggressiveness, passive coping strategies of stress were important predicting variables of violence game. On the basis of the results of this study, variable related to violence game addiction and possible interventions were discussed.