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An Analysis of the Causes of College Students′ Participation in Social Network Games Based on J48 Decision Tree Algorithm

  

  1.  1. School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China;2. School of MechanicalElectronic and Automobile Engineering, Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Beijing 100044, China; 3.10th Ward, Hebei Rongjun Hospital, Baoding 071100, China; 4.Department of Physics, Hebei Normal University of Science and Technology, Qinhuangdao 066004, China

  • Online:2016-12-31 Published:2017-02-22

Abstract:

Social network games, nested on the platform of social networking sites, have become a new favorite of college students. And college students′ Internet addiction has been of considerable interest to the academia in recent years. The reasons why college students participate in social network games are explored. A number of questionnaires are distributed through the Internet to collect information which needs to convert to data format and import into Waikato Environment for Knowledge Analysis (WEKA). And the decision tree model is obtained via the J48 decision tree algorithm. The results of the experiment indicate that college students′ social network game behavior is mainly related to family environment, living conditions and social networking sites activeness. The integrity and happiness degree of a family, together with college students′ attitude towards life and social networking sites activeness, are all important causes in social network game behavior. In addition, college students should be provided with effective strategies to prevent Internet game addiction because the reason of the participation is partly coincident with that of the Internet addiction of college students.

Key words: social network game, J48 decision tree algorithm, Internet addiction