| This study examined the relationship between video game addiction symptoms, hours of video game play, and adult attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms. One hundred and fourteen adult participants were gathered through an e-mail advertisement that utilized a snowballing technique and advertisements placed on an online classified advertisement site. After reporting their demographics and their hours of video game play weekly, participants were asked to take two measures. The first measure, Young's Internet Addiction Test adapted for video game play (YIAT-V), was used to measure video game addiction symptoms. The second measure, Conners Adult ADHD Rating Scales (CAARS), was used to measure ADHD symptoms; Spearman nonparametric correlations were then computed to determine the relationship between each of the three variables: hours of video game play weekly, video game addiction symptoms, and adult ADHD symptoms.;Results of the Spearman nonparametric correlations found a significant, positive correlation between hours of play weekly and video game addiction symptoms and between video game addiction symptoms and adult ADHD symptoms. No correlation was found between hours of video game play weekly and ADHD symptoms. The results indicate that ADHD symptoms may be positively linked with video game addiction symptoms. Implications for future research are discussed. |
