PERAN KONTROL DIRI DALAM MENGHADAPI KECANDUAN GAME ONLINE FREE FIRE PADA REMAJA DI KOMUNITAS FREE FIRE YOGYAKARTA

Nowadays, the existance of internet cannot be separated from the live of
people because it serves many purposes, one of them is to play online games. Having
low self-control, which comes from the parents or from the smartphone user, could
result in the absence of limitation, resulting in many teenagers havin online game
addiction. This research aims at 1). Revealing the level of self-control of Free Fire
playes in Free Fire Yogyakarta Community. 2). Finding out that there is a self-control
influence towards online game addiction in Free Fire Yogyakarta Community.
In this quantitative type of reseach, the sampling was done by implementing
purposive sampling, obtaining 50 subjects of Free Fire players who meet the research
criteria. The measurement was done by using self-control and gaming addiction scale.
The result of the research shows that the level of Free Fire players’ self control in
Free Fire Yogyakarta is the moderate category, 68%. The simple regresion analysis
results between self control and gaming addiction, indicated through determination
coefficient (R2 ) is (0.390) with sig (P) = 0.000 (P < 0.01), meaning that there is an
influence of self-control towards gaming addiction, 39%, in the Fire Fire players in
Fire Fire Yogyakarta Community. It can be concluded that if the self-control is high,
the gaming addiction is low.