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Lost in the game? Investigating the links between digital game addiction, self-regulation, social and life skills in preschoolers.

BMC Psychol · 2025 · PMC12961790 · PMID 41469729

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First, digital game addiction tendency was negatively but non-significantly related to self-regulation, showing only a marginal trend (p ≈ .05).

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There was a negative but non-significant trend between SR and DGAT (β = −0.112, t = 1.934, p = 0.053), suggesting that children with higher self-regulation skills may be somewhat less prone to gaming tendencies; however, this pattern did not reach statistical significance and should be interpreted with caution.

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