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Is There a Difference between the Real Self and the Virtual Self of Internet Game Players? The Effect of Avatar Identity
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Leilei Liang; Tongshuang Yuan; Kai Liu; Chengbin Zheng; Junsong Fei; Songli Mei – Youth & Society, 2025
The purpose of this study was to validate a proposed theoretical model of adolescent internet gaming disorders from a reality-virtual perspective. A questionnaire survey was conducted using random stratified cluster sampling on 3,058 middle school students with internet gaming experience, drawn from four middle schools in a province in northern…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Middle School Students, Self Concept, Computer Simulation