A Study of Physical Health Among High School Students Based on their Levels of Digital Gaming Addiction

Abstract

The objective of this study was to assess the impact of digital gaming addiction on the physical health of high school students. For the present study, a total of 1000 high school students were selected from the Durg district of Chhattisgarh. The sample included 500 male and 500 female students, representing both government and private schools of the district. A stratified random sampling technique was adopted to ensure proper representation of the population. To assess digital gaming addiction among high school students, the DGAS-SSKP prepared by Saini and Kaur was used while physical health was assessed through a pre validated questionnaire. The result reveals that students with high digital gaming addiction reported significantly more physical health related issues than both low and average addiction groups. Hence it was concluded that controlling digital gaming addiction among high school students is need of the hour so that countries future human resource become physically strong.