Miss Parirokh Mamaghani Miandoab, Dr Javad Kavousian, Dr Mehdi Arabzadeh, Dr Balal Izanloo,
Volume 19, Issue 1 (Volume 19, Issue 1, Spring 2025)
Abstract
The present study aimed to identify the factors influencing online gaming addiction among adolescents using a qualitative research design and semi-structured interviews method based on grounded theory. The participants of this study included 20 boy adolescent aged 13 to 18 years in Tehran who were selected using a theoretical sampling method. Based on the findings, the causes of online gaming addiction were found to be filling leisure time, personal, communication, fame, and wealth acquisition. Also, personal, work, marketing, and perceived social support factors in individual, social, and family dimensions play an important role in the occurrence of this phenomenon. Improving accuracy and concentration, controlling anger, cheerfulness, and relieving depression in the individual dimension, and making friends, becoming professional, and becoming famous in the social dimension, were positive consequences of online gaming addiction. Finally, lack of time for daily activities and academic and personal failure, damage to physical health in the individual dimension, and not being understood by the family in the family dimension were the negative consequences of online game addiction. It is suggested that education planners focus their counseling programs on how to fill leisure time usefully, create enjoyable personalized entertainment, Deal with stress and Satisfy individual needs.
