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Game Addiction, Imposter Phenomenon And Social Adjustment Among Young Adults In India, Jessy Fenn
Game Addiction, Imposter Phenomenon And Social Adjustment Among Young Adults In India, Jessy Fenn
Makara Human Behavior Studies in Asia
During the pandemic, the explosive growth of online gaming made it a social lifeline for many youths stuck at home, turning some of them into game addicts. Online gaming not only led to connections with other youth but also opened the gates to fantasy worlds filled with adventures and missions that could be accomplished with quick thinking and quick fingers. The success there could lead to further addiction and inversely affect their real-world social life. Could the gap between their online world success and their social adjustment in real world manifest as feelings of being an imposter? The aim of …