An investigation of the relationship of game addiction with the perception of loneliness, social support, anger management, and mental toughness

The aim of this study to investigate the prediction of perceived social support, perceived loneliness, anger management and mental toughness on game addiction in adults. The age range of participants are between "18-66", there are 342 participants consist of 93 women (27,2%), 249 men (%72,8) with an average age of 26,42. In the scope of this research, Ucla Loneliness Scale, Revised Form of Multidimensional Perceived Social Support Scale, Buss-Perry Agression Scale, Mental Toughness Scale and Game Addiction Scale were used. In addition, participants filled the Demographic Information Form. "Independent Samples T-Test", "One Way ANOVA", "Correlation Analysis", "Post Hoc Scheffe Test", "Post Hoc LSD" and "Multiple Linear Regression Analysis" were used to analyze the obtained data. According to the research results; as game addiction scores increase, perceived social support decreases and anger control level decreases. No significant relationship was found between game addiction and perceived loneliness perception & mental toughness. As perceived loneliness increases, mental toughness and perceived social support increase; anger control difficulties were experienced when perceived loneliness increased; perceived social support increases when mental toughness increases; anger control difficulties are experienced when mental toughness decreases; it was found that anger control difficulties were experienced when perceived social support decreased. Perceived loneliness, mental toughness, perceived social support and anger control scores were found to have a 27% effect on game addiction. It was found that addiction scores of women were higher than men.