Internet Gaming Disorder among Polish adolescents (2018)

The sample consists of 1500 students aged 10-18 years. Headmaster of the particular school gave the consent for the study. The students during school time (usually at educational lesson) were informed about the purpose of the study, that it is anonymous and participation is voluntary, and that they may refuse or resign from it at any time.

Dataset contains sociodemographic variables. The following measures were used: (i) Gaming activity questions (playing or not playing; types of games played - online, offline; with who the participant play games; devices used for gaming, frequency, emotions related to gaming, parents control and interest in children gaming, parents gaming activity); (ii) The Internet Gaming Disorder Scale-Short Form (IGD9-SF; Pontes & Griffiths, 2015); (iii) Ten-Item Internet Gaming Disorder Test (IGDT-10; Király, Sleczka, et al., 2017); (iv) Internet Addiction Test (IAT; Young 1998),(v) The Scale of Excessive Use of Social Networking Sites (Kotyśko, Michalak, in press).

Measures of Internet Gaming Disorder (IGDS9-SF and IGDT-10) were randomly distributed to participants (one half of the measure sets included IGDS9-SF and other half the IGDT-10 - however all of the sets were mixed to improve the randomisation). The rest of the measures were used among all participants. Date: 2018-02-01 – 2018-06-21 (data collection)