The Power of Idol? The Impact of Age Regulation on Internet Addiction

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10.2991/assehr.k.220504.373How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Internet addiction; age limitation policy

Abstract

Since age restriction on professional e-sport players has a significant impact on players’ careers and e-sport industry development, this study aims to investigate whether the policy is effective in controlling Internet addiction among teenagers. The study designs questionnaire with anchoring vignette and receives 152 questionnaires for further analysis using linear regression. The study finds that the policy can only limit teenagers’ time spent on playing games nowadays but have no reduction in reducing future time, even seems to increase future time, spent on playing games. Therefore, the policy has little impact. Because of the little effect, the policy should be edited. Mandatory identity verification and then limiting the time of underage accounts is sufficient enforcement policy. And government should focus more on the publicity of Internet addiction prevention, creating a good environment for young people to grow up and establishing correct values.

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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Sijie Mao
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/06/01
TI  - The Power of Idol? The Impact of Age Regulation on Internet Addiction
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 8th International Conference on Humanities and Social Science Research (ICHSSR 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 2066
EP  - 2071
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220504.373
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220504.373
ID  - Mao2022
ER  -