Relationship between Procrastination and Game Addiction among Student Gamers at a Private University College in Kuala Lumpur

Tan, Khan Yan (2020) Relationship between Procrastination and Game Addiction among Student Gamers at a Private University College in Kuala Lumpur. Final Year Project (Bachelor), Tunku Abdul Rahman University College.

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Abstract

Procrastination is a common issue that happened in academic context. Meanwhile, topic on game addiction draws attention from research community as it poses problems to students like failure in academic and poorer mental health. The present study aims to find the prevalence of game addiction and determine the relationship between procrastination and game addiction among student gamers at a private university college in Kuala Lumpur. As such, cross-sectional research design was adopted to collect data from 100 university college student gamers by using survey method in this correlational study. Tuckman Procrastination Scale (Tuckman, 1991) was adopted to measure procrastination while Game Addiction Scale (Lemmens, Valkenburg, & Peter, 2009) was utilized to measure game addiction. Results reported 54% of the student gamers were addicted to the game. By using Pearson correlation, a significantly positive correlation between procrastination and game addiction with a moderate strength was found (r= .475, p< .01). According to Lemmens and his colleagues (2009), salience, tolerance, mood modification, withdrawal, relapse, conflict, and problem were seven subscales in game addiction. Thus, results reported significantly positive correlation between procrastination and all seven subscales in this study (r= .370, p< .01; r= .487, p< .01; r= .201, p< .05; r= .264, p< .01, r= .417, p< .01; r= .421, p< .01; r= .296, p< .01 respectively). This research further provided new insights that impulsivity, self-monitor, and escapism may play roles in the relationship between procrastination and game addiction. Thus, future studies could include more relevant variables to further explore the topic.