青少年网络游戏成瘾的影响因素的发展行为遗传学研究

Adolescent Internet gaming disorder (IGD) has become a serious global public health concern, especially in China and Southeast Asia regions. How to insure adolescents fully take advantage of the technical convenience of the Internet, while insulated from the risk of Internet gaming disorder, under the rapid development of online-game industry in the post-Internet era, has post a fundamental challenges for the present and future. Using well-documented individual psychological factors, environmental factors and genetic factors Related to IGD, this project embrace the perspective of developmental behavioral genetics and utilizes a two-year longitudinal design with modern measure and statistical techniques, with the aim of addressing four empirically issues: (1) the associations between genetic polymorphisms and the trajectories of adolescent IGD; (2) the effects of ecological factors interplay on the etiology of adolescent IGD; (3)the effect of gene-environment interaction on the development of adolescent IGD; (4) the role of gene-environment correlation on the trajectories of adolescent IGD.

青少年网络游戏成瘾是当前国际性重大心理卫生问题，尤其是在东南亚及华人地区。在人类生活越来越离不开互联网以及网络游戏产业日益蓬勃发展的时代背景下，如何让青少年在充分享用互联网技术便利的同时而不会成瘾，是我们当前及未来不可回避的重大科学及实践课题。本项目拟采用发展行为遗传学研究思路，在广泛选取网络游戏成瘾相关的个体心理、环境因素以及基因因素基础上，运用两年的纵向追踪研究设计，并结合现代测量与统计技术，系统地开展四个方面的研究：（1）遗传多态性位点与青少年网络游戏成瘾发展轨迹的关联；（2）生态系统因素对青少年网络游戏成瘾发展轨迹的交互影响；（3）基因与环境对青少年网络游戏成瘾发展轨迹的交互作用研究；（4）基因与环境相关对青少年网络游戏成瘾发展轨迹的预测。