A CORRELATIVE ANALYSIS BETWEEN ONLINE GAMES

ADDICTION AND STUDENT’S READING COMPREHENSION

CHARMAINE ABAO CRUSPERO

MARY LEAHN ANGEL LOZANO REMON
KIM JAY DE LUNA EDULSA
SAM SACAL REMENTIZO

A RESEARCH SUBMITTED TO DESIRIE LAGURA CANJA

JUNE 2023
 Statement of the Problem

The study aims to:

a.) Identify the interrelationships among Internet literacy,

Internet addiction symptoms, Internet activities, and
academic performance.

Objective of the Study

The purpose of this study is to find out how Online Games

Addiction Affects Students’ Reading Comprehension. 

Specifically:

a.) To determine the interrelationships among Internet literacy,

Internet addiction symptoms, Internet activities, and
academic performance.

Research Design

This study is a qualitative research that aims to assess the

relationship between video gaming habits and elementary school
students’ academic performance. More specifically, we seek to
examine the usefulness of a distinction between addiction and high
engagement and assess the predictive validity of these concepts in the
context of scholastic achievements. Three hundred thirty-three (333)
children ages 8 to 12 years from two primary schools in Singapore
were selected to participate in this study. A survey utilizing Danforth's
Engagement-Addiction (II) scale and questions from DSM-IV was used
to collect information from the schoolchildren, writing their grades were
obtained directly to their teachers. The findings indicate that addiction
tendencies are consistently negatively related to scholastic
performance, while no such relationship is found for either time spent
playing or for video game engagement. The implication of these
findings is discussed.

Participants

The data will be gathered through a survey questionnaire given

to random respondents from grade 10 students in Valencia National
High School, with a maximum of only 20 participants to avoid
unnecessary information that will slow down the data-gathering
process.
 Findings

Reading comprehension is a complex mental performance of an

individual, which is strongly influenced by the modern phenomenon of
the use of the Internet. The main goal of the study is to examine the
relationship between foreign language reading comprehension (in
English and German) and Internet use (time spent on the Internet,
Internet addiction). The results of the research confirmed a negative
relationship between the time spent online and reading comprehension
in German. Internet addiction is positively correlated with reading
comprehension in English, this relationship is influenced by
demographic variables of students’ gender and the type of school
attended.

Conclusion

The results of this study are in agreement with the findings of

other studies around the world. As the results show, addiction to
computer games affects various dimension of health and increase
physical problems, anxiety, and depression, while decreasing social
functioning disorder.

Recommendations

Reading is an interactive process in which readers construct a

meaningful representation of a text using effective reading strategies.
Effective reading strategies are considered as significant skills that
have received a special focus on students’ reading comprehension
proficiency. In this paper, the researchers define the term reading and
reading comprehension, explain the type of reading, declare models of
reading comprehension, review the effective strategies for reading
comprehension, and finally mention findings of learners’ reading
strategies and their reading comprehension proficiency. The review of
the literature indicates that reading strategies play a significant role in
improving students’ reading comprehension skills.

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