Internet Gaming and Mental Health Among Late Adolescence University Students: Study Discipline as a Moderator.
Internet Gaming Disorder (IGD) has emerged as an increasingly prevalent behavioral health concern among late adolescent university students, a vulnerable population with emotional distress due to the developmental changes and academic pressures. This research explored the direct correlations between...
| Publicado en: | Adolescents (2673-7051) Vol. 6; no. 3; pp. 38 - 55 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=194938832&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 194938832 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 26737051 N5G1 jtl: Adolescents (2673-7051) issn: 26737051 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Jun2026 vid: 6 iid: 3 pid: 97109 pub: MDPI artinfo: ui: 194938832 194938832 194938832 10.3390/adolescents6030038 194938832 ppf: 38 ppct: 17 formats: tig: atl: Internet Gaming and Mental Health Among Late Adolescence University Students: Study Discipline as a Moderator. aug: au: Elshaer, Ibrahim A. Kooli, Chokri Jasim, Tarik A. Azazz, Alaa M. S. affil: Department of Management, College of Business Administration, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa 31982, Saudi Arabia sug: subj: Video Games Adverse Effects Internet Addiction Complications Mental Disorders Risk Factors Humanism Social Sciences Education, Health Sciences Engineering Students, College Psychosocial Factors Risk Assessment Human Adolescence Young Adult Male Female Saudi Arabia Funding Source Exploratory Research Cross Sectional Studies Depression Risk Factors Anxiety Risk Factors Stress, Psychological Risk Factors Structured Questionnaires Structural Equation Modeling Coping Social Anxiety Disorders Sleep Quality Descriptive Statistics Scales Psychometrics Evaluation Reliability and Validity Data Analysis Software Coefficient alpha Adolescent: 13-18 years Male Female ab: Internet Gaming Disorder (IGD) has emerged as an increasingly prevalent behavioral health concern among late adolescent university students, a vulnerable population with emotional distress due to the developmental changes and academic pressures. This research explored the direct correlations between IGD and Mental Health Disorder (MHD), such as depression, anxiety, and stress in Saudi Arabia (SA) with study discipline as a moderator. A total of 480 students participated in the developed self-structured questionnaire, and Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) was employed to analyze the obtained data. The results showed that IGD can exert a positive and significant association with all three aspects of MHD. Moreover, the PLS-SEM slope analysis indicated that study discipline can significantly moderate the link from IGD to both anxiety and depression, with university students in health, science, and engineering fields displaying higher symptoms of depression and anxiety as compared to their peers in humanities and social sciences. However, study discipline failed to moderate the link from IGD to stress. These findings can be interpreted through maladaptive coping mechanisms and behavioral addiction, whereby extreme IG can contribute to social withdrawal, reduce sleep quality, and worsen stress regulation, specifically during the late adolescence period. The results extend current research on IGD by emphasizing the disciplinary differences in mental health vulnerability and offering more empirical evidence from a Middle Eastern context. The study highlighted the urgent need for discipline-oriented mental health screening and targeted proactive interventions to deal with unsettled IG attitude within a higher education context. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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