게임선용, 역기능적 게임사용, 회피 동기의 공동 궤적

Joint Trajectories of Adaptive and Maladaptive Game Use and Escapism

This study examined heterogeneous longitudinal patterns of adaptive game use (AGU), maladaptive game use (MGU), and escape motivation. While prior research has emphasized pathological outcomes, intensive gaming may also serve adaptive functions. A group-based multi-trajectory model was applied to a national five-wave panel to model AGU, MGU, and escape motivation simultaneously. Results supported five co-development profiles: Low-Risk Decreasing (G1); Low-Risk Mixed Increasing (G2), with rising AGU and MGU and slight increases in escape motivation at low levels; Moderate-Risk Recovery (G3), with stable AGU but declining MGU and escape; High-Risk Deteriorating (G4), with increasing AGU and escape and a curvilinear escalation in MGU; and Chronic High-Risk (G5), with persistently elevated MGU and escape across waves. Overall, adaptive and maladaptive aspects of game use may coexist and codevelop rather than forming a single continuum, underscoring the need to distinguish high engagement from risk trajectories and to tailor interventions to motivational processes.