The Impact of Gender and Age on Game Addiction

Yuanzhi Chen

2025

Abstract

Game addiction has rose a public concern in recent days. Current studies have revealed the impact of gender and age on game addiction from multiple aspects, encompassing variations in national contexts, cultural backgrounds, sample sizes, and methodologies. In addition, this literature review essay summarized the research process, methodologies, and results of 8 related researches in order to discuss the correlation between gender, age and game addiction. In conclusion, present studies indicate that male gender and young age are risk factors linked to game addiction. Males and young people are easier to be affected by game addiction. This results might suggest that the prevention of game addiction should focus more on young male population. Further, future longitudinal research is needed to reveal the causality effects of age- and gender- related variables on game addiction.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Chen Y. (2025). The Impact of Gender and Age on Game Addiction. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Public Relations and Media Communication - Volume 1: PRMC; ISBN 978-989-758-778-8, SciTePress, pages 456-460. DOI: 10.5220/0013993200004916

in Bibtex Style

@conference{prmc25,
author={Yuanzhi Chen},
title={The Impact of Gender and Age on Game Addiction},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Public Relations and Media Communication - Volume 1: PRMC},
year={2025},
pages={456-460},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0013993200004916},
isbn={978-989-758-778-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Public Relations and Media Communication - Volume 1: PRMC
TI - The Impact of Gender and Age on Game Addiction
SN - 978-989-758-778-8
AU - Chen Y.
PY - 2025
SP - 456
EP - 460
DO - 10.5220/0013993200004916
PB - SciTePress