A Co-relational Study of Online Gaming Disorder and Mental Health among Adolescents in Present Era

Page: 378-382

Nirmala Kaushik (Department of Psychology, CMG, Govt. College for Women, Fatehabad, Haryana)

Mental health is a very important aspect for adolescents. Mental health is “psychological status of one who is working on a satisfactory level of emotional and behavioral adjustment;” psychological stability encompasses our physical, psychological and social welfare. In the current scenario of COVID Pandemic, Internet has become an unavoidable part of everyone’s life especially of adoloscents. Online gaming disorder is a mental health disorder. This research paper is aimed to know the effect of online gaming addiction on Mental Health of adoloscents. For the current study a sample of 300 adoloscents (school & college students) from Haryana were taken. The data was collected through the questionnaires, Video game addiction test by Thao Tran and Mental Health Inventory (MHI) by Jagdish and Srivastava. Descriptive research techniques applied to analyze the data. After analysis, it is found that male adoloscents have been observed low in health that is mental as than their counterpart female adolescents. It may be said that online gaming addiction has some impact on emotional health of adoloscents. The findings of the current study further revealed the substantial positive relationship among mental health & internet gaming addiction among adoloscents. To conclude, this particular exploration argued that Internet gaming addiction contains an immediate influence on mental health of adoloscents. Thus, the current findings grow our comprehension on the association among mental health & internet gaming addiction of college adoloscents.