Parental performance and its relationship to online game addiction among middle school students

This study aims to determine the relationship between parental performance and online game addiction among middle school students. It also aims to identify the differences between males and females in the study sample on the parental performance scale (father image and mother image), and the online game addiction scale. The study sample was randomly selected from 72 male and female middle school students. The results of this study proved the existence of an inverse and statistically significant relationship between parental performance (father image) and (mother image) and online game addiction among middle school students at a significance level of 0.01. The results confirmed the presence of statistically significant differences at a significance level of 0.01 between the males and females of the study sample on the parental performance scale (father image) in favor of males. The results also confirmed the absence of significant differences between the males and females of the study sample on the parental performance scale (mother image). The study also showed the presence of statistically significant differences at a significance level of 0.01 between the males and females of the study sample on the online game addiction scale in favor of males.