VALIDATION OF THE GA MING ADDICTION SCALE (GAS) ON NIGERIAN ADOLESCENTS

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dc.contributor.authorOgunsemi, Joshua O.
dc.date.accessioned2025-05-07T14:01:33Z
dc.date.available2025-05-07T14:01:33Z
dc.date.issued2020-08
dc.description.abstractA cross-sectional survey design utilizing an ex-post factor design was adopted to validate the Gaming Addiction Scale (GAS) using Nigerian secondary school adolescents. A purposive sampling technique was used to select the 338 (mean age and SD13.60 ±1.867) participants made up of 149 males and 189 females from several randomly selected secondary schools in a Local Government Area of Edo State, Nigeria. Participants responded to Gaming Addiction Scale (GAS) and Internet Gaming Disorder Test(IGD-20).Observed internal consistency of GAS showed a Cronbach's alpha coefficient of .75, a Spearman-Brown coefficient of.71 and Guttman Split-Half coefficient of.71. All but one of the items in the scale reported acceptable goodness-of-fit measures revealing corrected item-total correlations range of .192 to .523.Significant positive correlation was also observed between GAS and IGD-20 revealing concurrent validity score of (r = .459, P= .000).Determined new norms for GAS were scores51.81 for male and 47.98for female. GAS is gender sensitive and has acceptable psychometricproperties for Nigerian population.
dc.identifier.issn23500743
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.run.edu.ng/handle/123456789/4411
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherInternational Journal of Recent Advances in Multidisciplinary Research
dc.relation.ispartofseries7; 8
dc.titleVALIDATION OF THE GA MING ADDICTION SCALE (GAS) ON NIGERIAN ADOLESCENTS
dc.typeArticle
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