A type of addiction that manifests with playing computer/video games for a long-time with a lack of self-control over gaming and results in excessive irritability, tendency to violence, health problems caused by immobility, decrease in academic success, isolation from daily life, loss of visual ability, monotony, boredom, deficiencies in mental development, lying about playing time.
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Internet Addiction as a Behavioral Addiction: The Effect of Computer Games on Children and Cyber Violence
Emre Kol (Anadolu University, Turkey) and Seda Topgul (Akdeniz University, Turkey)
Copyright: © 2022
|Pages: 22
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-9187-1.ch017
Abstract
Taking into consideration the gradually widespread use of the internet, children are thought to be an important group both in terms of the time they spend on the internet and the dangers they will be exposed to in the virtual world. Internet addiction is essentially a type of behavioral addiction, characterized by a certain behavioral pattern, which is confronted with both physical, psychological, and social consequences. The research aims to establish a correlation between children's addiction to computer games with the cyber violence that they may be exposed to base on this addiction. For this reason, this study is a systematic review that aims to examine the effects of computer addiction as a subtype of internet addiction, which is a type of behavioral addiction, on children and its relationship with cyber violence. The research significantly contributes to the literature by revealing the effects of COVID-19 on children's addiction to computer games and the correlation of children's addiction to computer games with cyber violence.