THE EFFECT OF THE DURATION OF PLAYING ONLINE GAMES ON STUDENTS' DEPRESSION LEVEL

The online game is very popular with the community especially teenagers or early adulthood because at this time humans are in the search for their undergraduate program, where they are very easy to accept new phenomena from outside. himself or the environment. Online game users often play excessively with a long duration of time, causing various negative impacts, one of which is depression. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of the duration of playing online games with the level of depression of the S1 Nursing Study Program Students of STIKes Muhammadiyah Ciamis. This study is an analytic survey with a cross-sectional approach. The number of research samples was 78 subjects, all students of the Nursing Study Program of STIKes Muhammadiyah Ciamis who played online games and included the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Analysis of data using Spearman ranks statistical tests. The results showed that there was an influence of the duration of playing online games on the level of depression with a Sig value of 0.01 <0.05 and a correlation coefficient of 0.383. The conclusion that there is a weak influence of the duration of playing online games on the level of depression of the S1 Nursing Study Program students of STIKes Muhammadiyah Ciamis.