relationship between electronic game addiction and social phobia for high school students within the framework of behavioral theory in the social Casework "A comparative study between public and private schools"

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Department of individual and family work

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The study aimed to determine the relationship between electronic games addiction and social phobia for high school students, to test the differences between males and females and students of public and private schools on the scales of electronic games addiction and social phobia, to reach suggested role indicators from the perspective of the individual service method to alleviate the addiction of students in public and private schools to electronic games. The concepts of the study were determined in (the concept of addiction to electronic games, the concept of social phobia), which is a descriptive, analytical and comparative study based on the social survey method with a simple random sample, amounting to (260) students in the schools specified for the application of the study, The study concluded that there is a positive, statistically significant correlation between addiction to electronic games and social phobia, as the value of the Pearson correlation coefficient (0.195**) which is a function of (0.01), and there are differences between public and private school students on the social phobia scale in favor of private schools. While there are no differences between public and private school students on the electronic games addiction scale, and there are differences between males and females on the electronic games addiction scale in favor of males, and the social phobia scale in favor of females.

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