Research Paper The International Journal of Indian Psychology ISSN 2348-5396 (e) | ISSN: 2349-3429 (p) Volume 8, Issue 1, DIP: 18.01.095/20200801 DOI: 10.25215/0801.095 http://www.ijip.in | January- March, 2020 © 2020, S Kaur; licensee IJIP. This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Effects of online games on the personality of adolescents Simran Kaur 1 * ABSTRACT The objective of this research is to see the effect of online games on the personality of adolescents. The data of this study was obtained by the Internet Gaming Disorder Scale – Short Form 9 (IGD – SF9) (Pontes & Griffiths, 2015) and Big Five Inventory (BFI) (Rammstedt & John, 2007) and a demographic information form. A sample of 500 adolescents (between the ages of 13 to 19) participated in the study. The study was conducted in a school in Delhi/NCR. For testing the significant difference in the personality of adolescents who play online games, a t-test was conducted. To ascertain if there was any major difference in the personality of adolescents with respect to gender, one-way ANOVA was used. Throughout analyses of data, it was found that there was a significant difference in the level of agreeableness and conscientiousness among participants who play online games. With participants having a low risk of IGD scoring higher than participants with a high risk of IGD on agreeableness. Whereas, it was also found that there is a significant difference in conscientiousness with respect to gender and IGD. And a significant difference in neuroticism with respect to gender only. But the interaction between gender and IGD shows significance. Keywords: Personality, Online games, Adolescents As the penetration of the internet grew many folds in the last decade, online gaming is a recent phenomenon that has caught the fancy of the generation. These days children invest most of their time on the computer, mobile phones, tablets, television, and playing online games. Online games have become a staple in everyday life. Playing online games has many adverse effects on both the physical and mental health of children and adults. Online gaming is common among adolescents. According to research, online gaming is a widely enjoyed activity among adolescents. It has been measured that there are roughly five million online gamers worldwide, and this number is growing steadily (Chan and Vorderer,2006). Online gaming these days allow the players to be in contact with the other players around the world. Online gaming not only affects physical and mental health, but it has been proposed in research that over indulgent in online gaming can affect social lives, lessen community involvement and notably affect the health of the player (William, Yee, & Caplan, 2008). 1 Research Scholar, Amity Institute of Psychology and Allied Sciences, Amity University, Noida, India *Responding Author Received: March 5, 2020; Revision Received: March 19, 2020; Accepted: March 31, 2020