Abstract

This study was to investigate commercial high school male students' game addiction tendency. The investigation results of the game addiction tendency from 939 high school male students were as follows, the addiction degree tends to be higher to the lower school year students, the students wanting family's interest, the students who game using time is longer, the students who purpose for internet using was game, the students who his favorite kind of game is Role-Playing Games and degree of self- awakening of his game addiction is higher more addictive. (Korean J Str Res 2008;16:419∼426)

• Keywords: Game addiction, Addiction degree, Favorite game, Game using time, Addiction self-awakening;