Psychological Development and Education ›› 2014, Vol. 30 ›› Issue (5): 533-539.

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The Deficit Characteristics of Attentional Focus Switching Function in Online Game Addicts

ZHANG Bao1, HUANG Sai2, HOU Qiu-xia3   

  1. 1. Department of Psychology, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou 510006;
    2. School of Psychology, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631;
    3. School of Education Science, Jiaying University, Meizhou 514015
  • Online:2014-09-15 Published:2014-09-15

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Abstract: The characteristic of cognitive deficits in the online game addicts is one of hot issues concerned by numerous researchers. Here, adopting the attentional focus task, we Required 14 game addicts and 14 normal participants to perform attentional focus switching task within phonological loop, within visuospatial sketchpad and between them, then compared the switching cost between two groups. The results showed that the switching cost was significant greater for game addicts than normal participants only in the task of switching within visuospatial sketchpad, however, no significant differences was found in the other switching task. These results indicated that there was a specific deficit on the attentional focus switching function for the online game addicts.

Key words: online game addict, attentional focus switching function, specific cognitive deficits

CLC Number: 

  • B844.3
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