Game addiction and locus of control among adolescents Indumathy J*, Divvyalakshmi N.N.*, Ashwini U.R.** *M.Phil in Psychology Scholars, Madras School of Social Work, Chennai **Assisstant Professor, CTTE College, Chennai Online published on 1 August, 2019. Abstract In general adolescent period is known as the period of stress and storm. The individual undergo several changes physically, hormonally, psychologically, their interests and likes also varies. During this age they are curious to engage themselves in new games and activities. In this technology world, the use of smartphones and gadgets has increased tremendously among everyone irrespective of their age. Games are one of the applications that everyone enjoys while involved in it. When an individual is involved in games more than the required time, feel uncontrolled to play and compromises their regular activities for this it is called game addiction. Locus of control talks about two aspects which is internal and external locus of control. Having a control on their emotions, behaviours are internal and other having a control on an individual is external. In the current study the researchers try to study the association between Game addiction and Locus of Control among late adolescents. Since there are very limited studies on these variables, the study follows the exploratory research design to get new understandings and elaborations about game addiction and locus of control. A total of 100 adolescents of age 18 – 19years were selected randomly from 3 different schools using systematic random sampling technique. Game Addiction Scale by Lemmens et al., (2011) and Levenson Multidimensional Locus of Control Scales (1981) are the tools used for data collection. Pearson product moment correlation and Independent Sample t test were computed for statistical analysis of the data. The results of the study indicate that game addiction was higher in boys than girls. The analysis also reveals a significant association between Game Addiction and Powerful others (i.e. External Locus of Control). Further implication and suggestions are discussed in the paper. Top Keywords Internal Locus of Control, External Locus of Control, Game Addiction. Top |