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KMID : 0858820110280010037
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Journal of Korean Society for Health Education and Promotion
2011 Volume.28 No. 1 p.37 ~ p.47
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Family Function, Parent-Child Communication, and Family Satisfaction Influencing Game Use among Korean Adolescents
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Seo Mi-A
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Abstract
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Objectives: The purpose of this study was to explore the influential factors of family function, parent-child communication, and family satisfaction on Korean adolescents game use.
Methods: The participants were 940 adolescents in Seoul. A structured questionnaire was used to collect data. The study variables were family function, parent-child communication, family satisfaction, and game use.
Results: Game use was different by gender, age, time to spend in game during weekdays and weekend. Game use had significant negative correlations with family cohesion, family adaptability, communication with father, communication with mother, and family satisfaction. Multiple regression analysis showed that 20.3% of the game use was explained by gender, communication with mother, hours of playing games during weekdays, family adaptability, and hours of playing games during weekend.
Conclusions: These results suggest that being male and lack of communication with mother, low family adaptability, game hours during weekdays and weekend can be potential risk factors for excessive game use in the adolescents, which should by considered in developing a prevention program for excessive game use focused on family factors.
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KEYWORD
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Adolescents, Game use, Family cohesion, Family adaptability, Family communication
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