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The Use of and Addiction Tendency to Kakao Game among University Students

The purpose of this study wat to find how to use Kakao game and addiction tendency to Kakao game of university students. Questionnaire survey was conducted during June 28 to July 7, 2013, and 300 Chungbuk National University students were selected. Major findings were as follows.First, most of respondents(93.3%) were enjoying Kakao game, and 50% of respondents were doing Kakao game everyday or 3∼4 times a week. Furthermore 16% of them continued Kakao game for over an hour, once they get started. They were doing Kakao game mostly at home, and at night. Second, addiction tendency of respondents was found to be quite low(1.78/5). However, 7.9% of respondent group showed over 3 out of 5. This result implies that they might go further addiction level.Third, it was found that some psychological factors affected on addiction tendency to Kakao game. That is, the higher extroversion level, the lower depression level, and the lower social avoidance & anxiety level, the lower addition tendency to Kakao game. Furthermore, the frequency and continuing time of Kakao game were foune to be related to addition tendency to Kakao game. That is, the more often and longer time duration of Kakao game, the higher addition tendency to Kakao game.