Long hours spent in playing mobile games can negatively impact the users with symptoms like lower selfesteem, loss of personal hygiene, loss of sleep and lower social interaction and loss of real conversations to name a few. People often play games to forget real-life problems, making them run away from what is real. People have also complained of lost interest in real relationships, where gamers take refuge in fake online relationships. Excessive gaming has resulted in loss of work with a total lack of interest in real life responsibilities. Addictive gaming has also led people to isolate themselves from family and friends.Stress is also one of the other offspring of gaming addiction where people can face getting enslaved by depression in situations wherein they are unable to achieve the goals set within the game. Situations like losing a game life or loss of powers to other players can also become the catalyst of stress for many gamers.Gamers who are constantly playing games are often believed to be in a confused state. After a certain point, the line between the real and virtual world starts blurring, wherein they start enacting the game in the real world.
Keywords
Mobile Addiction
game addiction
mobile game
qualitative research
students
Authors
K. Rani
S. Sophia Rani
How to Cite this Article
K. Rani, S. Sophia Rani (2019).
"MOBILE GAME ADDICTION AMONG CHILDRENS".
International Journal of Contemporary Research in Computer Science and Technology,
5(1), pp. 1-6.