Table 1 Comparison of male and female subsamples on internet gaming disorder (IGD9-SF test)
From: Relationship of Internet gaming disorder with dissociative experience in Italian university students
IGD9-SF | University students (N = 221) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Male | Female | t | p | |||
M | SD | M | SD | |||
1. Do you feel preoccupied with your gaming behaviour? | 3.0860 | .40796 | 3.0000 | .00000 | 2.3870 | .0178 |
2. Do you feel more irritability, anxiety or even sadness when you try to either reduce or stop your gaming activity? | 3.0645 | .35528 | 3.0156 | .17678 | 1.3455 | .1799 |
3. Do you feel the need to spend increasing amount of time engaged gaming in order to achieve satisfaction or pleasure? | 3.1935 | .59450 | 3.0156 | .17678 | 3.1989 | .0016 |
4. Do you systematically fail when trying to control or cease your gaming activity? | 3.1613 | .53751 | 3.0000 | .00000 | 3.3980 | .0008 |
5. Have you lost interests in previous hobbies and other entertainment activities as result of your engagement with the game? | 3.0430 | .29170 | 3.0156 | .17678 | .8664 | .3872 |
6. Have you continued your gaming activity despite knowing it was causing problems between you and other people? | 3.0430 | .29170 | 3.0156 | .17678 | .8664 | .3872 |
7. Have you deceived any of your family members, therapists or others because the amount of your gaming activity? | 3.0217 | .20851 | 3.0000 | .00000 | 1.1785 | .2399 |
8. Do you play in order to temporarily escape or relieve a negative mood? | 3.3656 | .77719 | 3.2188 | .62667 | 1.5527 | .1219 |
9. Have you jeopardized or lost an important relationship, job or an educational or career opportunity because of your gaming activity? | 3.0860 | .40796 | 3.0156 | .17678 | 1.7413 | .0830 |
Total score | 28.034 | 2.2138 | 27.293 | .7566 | 3.5124 | .0005 |