Predicting Video Game Addiction Through the Dimensions of Consumer Video Game Engagement: Quantitative and Cross-sectional Study

Amir Zaib Abbasi   ^{1, 2 *} , PhD ;   Umair Rehman   ^{3 *} , PhD ;   Zahra Afaq   ⁴ , MPhil ;   Mir Abdur Rafeh   ¹ , MPhil ;   Helmut Hlavacs   ^{5 *} , PhD ;   Mohammed A Mamun   ^{6, 7} , HSC ;   Muhammad Umair Shah   ⁸ , PhD

¹ Department of Management Sciences, Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan

² Interdisciplinary Research Centers for Finance and Digital Economy, KFUPM Business School, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

³ User Experience Design Department, Wilfrid Laurier University, Brantford, ON, Canada

⁴ Namal Institute Mianwali, Mianwali, Pakistan

⁵ Entertainment Group, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

⁶ Center for Health Innovation, Networking, Training, Action and Research-Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh

⁷ Department of Public Health and Informatics, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Bangladesh

⁸ Department of Management Sciences, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada

*these authors contributed equally