Prevalence and Correlates of Video and Internet Gaming Addiction among Hong Kong Adolescents: A Pilot Study

Table 3

Logistic regression analysis of the risk for gaming addiction (total R ² = 0.39).

		OR	95% CI	P values	R ^2 change
Step  1	Sex				0.16
	Girls	1.00
	Boys	2.49	1.41–4.40	0.002
	Academic performance
	Good or very good	1.00
	Fair	1.55	0.70–3.45	0.458
	Poor or very poor	2.80	1.13–6.92	0.026
	Family harmony
	Good or very good	1.00
	General	1.15	0.62–2.12	0.654
	Bad or very bad	3.36	1.53–7.41	0.003
	Classmate relations
	Good or very good	1.00
	General	1.04	0.55–1.96	0.897
	Bad or very bad	1.37	0.40–4.70	0.620
	Number of close friends
	6 or less	1.00
	7 or more	3.08	1.63–5.82	0.001
Step  2	Types of games				0.02
	Other types of video games	1.00
	Multiplayer online games	2.50	1.29–4.85	0.007
Step  3	Average time of gaming per week	1.32	1.16–1.49	<0.001	0.21
	Frequency of spending money on gaming	1.18	1.02–1.36	0.025
	Amount of money spent on gaming per month	0.92	0.62–1.37	0.696
	Period of spending money on gaming	1.35	1.01–1.81	0.042
	Period of playing internet games	1.03	0.75–1.41	0.873