The Relations Between Cyber-Game Addiction, Sociability And Personality Among College Students

Along with the high-speed of internet and information development in our country and colleges, our life has been changed by internet proverbially.. Then the issue of internet addiction among college students aroused by the above phenomena has caused the focusing of many psychologists domestically and abroad. Internet addiction is a kind of chronic and recurrent mental problem caused by ceaseless and repetitious usage of Internet, which is a kind of psychological dependence to internet on individuals. Internet addiction among college students is a kind of psychological problems which represented a kind of mental problem. The college students with internet addiction problem can not live without internet for a long time as well as spending lots of time in chatting with friends, reading information or playing games on internet. So their real life will be influenced a lot and their efficiency of study will be declined also. Internet addiction will also harm the college student's health and finally lead to psychological problems and bring obstacles while communicating with others. There was research from other scholars showed that internet addiction issue can be divided into three types: cyber game addiction, cyber communication addiction and cyber information addiction. After investigation and statistics, the author focused on the cyber game addiction factor affecting on college students'sociability and personality.Currently, most of our country's researchers preferred to analyze cyber game addiction problem among internet addiction, and their methods are mainly case study. So the domestic research on the cyber game addiction among college students is just starting on its way. The former researches seldomly take cyber game addiction as one factor to proof psychological healthy level and personality among college students. But there are seldom research on the relations between sociability and cyber game addiction. This dissertation mainly ascertained the factors effecting on cyber game addiction as well as probed into the relationships between cyber game addiction, sociability and personality among college students.The author used the Questionnaire of Internet Application , Cyber Game Addiction Scale, Sociability Scale and Eysenck's EPQ Questionnaire to testify the actuality of cyber game addiction among college students. After the above measures, the author used SPSS14.0 to compute the data as well as the statistic methods of T-test, ANOVA Analyze, Correlative Analyze and Regression Analyze to indicate and support the research. Then the author discussed the relationship between cyber game addiction, sociability and personality among college students, and proposed some personal opinions to college students, their parents and professors in college. The results of this dissertation are showed following:Firstly, there are remarkable differences on aspects of demography among cyber game addiction students, such as the aspects of sex, grade, major and background. In specific, there are the more males than females addicted on cyber games; there are more senior students than junior students on cyber games among college; there are more students majoring in arts and science having cyber game addiction tendency than the students majoring in literature; the students from city and town are easier fall in cyber game addiction than the students from countryside; there are more singletons with cyber game addiction tendency than unsingletons;Secondly, there are remarkable differences on personality between cyber game IAD and non-cyber game IAD among college students. In specific, there are remarkable differences on extraversion -introversion and psychoticism factors in EPQ scale between cyber game IAD and non-cyber game IAD among college students.Thirdly, there are remarkable correlations between cyber game addiction scores and sociability. The correlations between cyber game addiction scores and psychoticism, neuroticism as well as lie factors are also remarkable.Fourthly, the sociability and psychoticism factor in EPQ scale has remarkable prediction to cyber game addiction among college students, which means the college students have lower sociability and high psychoticism will be more easily fall into cyber game addiction.