فعالية العلاج بالتقبل و الإلتزام في خفض مستوى ممارسة الألعاب الإلكترونية لدى المراهقين

Abstract EN

The current research aimed to identify the effectiveness of a counseling program based on acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) to decrease the level of electronic gaming by male and female adolescents from the preparatory stage students.

The study sample consisted of (230) male and female adolescents from preparatory school students from the Central Educational Administration of Alexandria.

The sample of the experimental study consisted of (54) male and female adolescents from preparatory school students who obtained the highest score on the scale of electronic gaming, which randomly divided into two groups: first one is experimental group and the other one is the control group, both of them are (27) students.

The researchers used observations, interviews, an electronic gaming questionnaire, and a counseling program.

The number of sessions was 24, with three sessions per week.

The researchers used the semi-experimental method with the experimental and control groups with the pre-test and post-test of the two groups.

The researchers also used the following statistical methods: T-test, Mann-Whitneyn test, Eta square to calculate the effect size, The results of the study showed the effectiveness of the counseling program based on the acceptance and commitment therapy in decreasing the level of electronic gaming by male and female adolescents, where their grades decreased significantly in the post-test on the electronic gaming questionnaire and was more efficiently by female than male.

Moreover, the results indicated that the effectiveness of the counseling program differs according to the gender.

In addition, the results revealed the continuity effectiveness of the counseling program in reducing the level of electronic gaming by adolescents.