HUBUNGAN ANTARA DEPRESI DENGAN KECANDUAN GAME ONLINE PUBG PADA DEWASA AWAL

Abstract

Addicted to online games bring negative impacts, both from the physical and psychological aspects. Online game addicts are often isolated from the community and vulnerable to suffering from disorders one of which is depression. The purpose of the study was to determine the relationship between depression and online game addiction. This study uses a quantitative approach to the type of cross-sectional study. The research subjects were online game players in the city of Lhokseumawe, aged 17-30 years, as many as 100 people. The data collection method in this study uses two Likert model measurement scales, namely the addiction scale of the online game Game Addiction Scale (GAS) compiled by Dona, Fathra & Siti (2016) refers to the theory put forward by Lemmnes (2009) while for depression the scale is used Beck Depression Inventory Scale (BDI) compiled with reference to Beck's theory (1995).The results of the analysis use the Sperman correlation technique from non-parametric statistics with a correlation coefficient r = 0.265 and p = 0.008 (p <0.01). This shows that there is a very significant positive correlation between depression and addiction to online gaming pubg in early adulthood, the higher the level of depression in early Lhokseumawe, the higher the level of online gaming addiction in early adulthood in the city of Lhokseumawe, and vice versa the lower the level depression that is owned by early adults in the city of Lhokseumawe the lower the level of online game addiction pubg in early adults in the city of Lhokseumawe