Authors :
Waleed Tayyab Buttar, Umy Rubab, Ayesha Javed, Umber, Zahra Alam Virk
Volume/Issue :
Volume 5 - 2020, Issue 3 - March
Google Scholar :
https://goo.gl/DF9R4u
Scribd :
https://bit.ly/2RkKOzb
Abstract :
Technology has changed the world in many ways over the past few years and there hardly is any
industry left untouched by it. Over the past decade, smartphones have taken the world of technology by
storm. Almost half of the world’s population (3.5 billion) own smartphones. Millions of apps and games
on the Apple App Store and Google Play has provided the users with plentiful opportunities to spend
time on entertainment playing games. However, this leisure activity has increased to alarming levels as a
result of which, many extreme cases have surfaced around the world over the past few years. Some of the
extreme cases include suicides, anxiety, depression and a toll on mental health as a result of excessive and
continued gaming. In this qualitative study, we have tried to explore some of the factors that attract
players to spend so much time on such games. For the purpose of this study, we have taken highly
popular shooting game, PUBG to base our study on. We identified four theoretical dimensions and
discovered the psychological impacts of PUBG addiction among youth.
Keywords :
Electronic games addiction Youth PUB
Technology has changed the world in many ways over the past few years and there hardly is any
industry left untouched by it. Over the past decade, smartphones have taken the world of technology by
storm. Almost half of the world’s population (3.5 billion) own smartphones. Millions of apps and games
on the Apple App Store and Google Play has provided the users with plentiful opportunities to spend
time on entertainment playing games. However, this leisure activity has increased to alarming levels as a
result of which, many extreme cases have surfaced around the world over the past few years. Some of the
extreme cases include suicides, anxiety, depression and a toll on mental health as a result of excessive and
continued gaming. In this qualitative study, we have tried to explore some of the factors that attract
players to spend so much time on such games. For the purpose of this study, we have taken highly
popular shooting game, PUBG to base our study on. We identified four theoretical dimensions and
discovered the psychological impacts of PUBG addiction among youth.
Keywords :
Electronic games addiction Youth PUB
