The Effect of Mobile Legend Game Addiction on Adolescent Emotional Intelligence

Abstract

Emotional intelligence is important for relationships and influences behavior in daily interactions. However, online game addiction can damage emotional intelligence. This phenomenon of online game addiction can have a negative impact especially on the emotional intelligence of adolescents, as they are in a phase of development that is vulnerable to emotional changes and environmental influences. This research is a descriptive statistical quantitative research. The subjects in this study were adolescents who actively played Mobile Legends with an age range of 11-22 years. For the game addiction variable, researchers used the Game Addiction Scale-7 (GAS-7) developed by Lemmens et al (2009). While for emotional intelligence, this study uses the Assesing Emotional Scale (AES) measuring instrument, which was created by Schutee et al. in 1998 and built based on the 1990 Salovey & Mayer theory. Based on the test results, the significance value is 0.693 which is greater than 0.05 so it can be said that there is no influence between mobile legends addiction and emotional intelligence. It can be seen that the correlation value is -0.083 which means there is no correlation. Because the correlation value is negative, it can be concluded that the correlation is that the higher the mobile legends addiction, the lower the emotional intelligence.