How Do Workplace Issues Affect Employees' Video Game Addiction?

Abstract

ABSTRACT This study investigates how workplace issues such as organizational politics influence employees' video game addiction, and explores whether interpersonal relationships in groups such as leader–member exchange can moderate the relationship between organizational politics and video game addiction. For this, we collected data from 305 employees in Korean companies through a survey method. In the results, first, organizational politics increase conflict and loss of control among the sub-factors of video game addiction. Second, leader member exchange quality decreases the effect of each characteristic of organizational politics on conflict and loss of control of video game addiction.