REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE OF AGE IN MOBILE LEGENDS

Based on Funk (2013), "Mobile Legends is very popular in demand among various circles.
Starting from adolescence to adulthood, this game is popular especially in Asia. In fact, until June
23, 2017 total 12,675,696 accounts are known to have downloaded this game on the Google
Play Store."

It states that one of developer of this online game show the gamers are dominated by
teenagers and early adults aged 15-25 years. And there are lots of gamers that engaged to this
game by downloading it in Google Play Store.

REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE OF GENDER IN MOBILE LEGENDS

(Chou and Tsai 2007; Hainey et al. 2011; Chen 2010) said that, "Men and women also
differ on time they spend playing and in frequency of play. Multiple studies report that men play
more often and for a significantly longer time than women."

It means that there are differences between men and women in playing mobile legends.
Men takes more time to play this game then women.

REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE OF HOURS OF PLAYING IN MOBILE LEGENDS

Jaruratanasirikul, et.al, (2009) found that, "the excessive playing of mobile legends (five
hours or more per session) resulted in school grades that were below a 3.00 average, and that
time spent playing was a predictor of academic performance.

Jaruratanasirikul means that too much playing of mobile legends within 5hours or more
may be the cause of failing grades.
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Based on (Becerra et al. 2008; Hainey et al. 2011), "Men and women adoption rates
differ. Indisputably, studies indicate that more men play online games than women."

This states that there lots of men who usually plays mobile legends than women.

(Salter & Blodgett, 2012; Tan, 2011) "Females, being a minority group within the mobile
legends community, are harassed and denounced by the dominant cohort of male gamers."

Females that doesn't really into the community of mobile legends are getting
intimidation and criticized by the male gamers who are presiding the game.

• REVIEW OF RELATED STUDIES OF AGE IN MOBILE LEGENDS

(Murray &Rosanbalm, 2017) "Adult individuals tend to be able to control their behavior
compared to adolescents because this ability developed in adolescence such as making the right
decisions, monitoring behavior and the ability to deal with problems."

It states that Adult gamer controls well their behavior than the young gamers.

According to Gunter (1997,2008), "states that children at age 6-11 and 12-17 years have
the highest number of players."

It means that there are lots of players of this game especially in 6-17 years of age.
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By Marg Pilapil( September 30, 2019) "Mobile Legends can lead to disruption of sleep
patterns and prevents you from getting the rest you need."

It states that too much playing of this game can interrupt you from sleeping where you
will be lacking of sleep.

According to Griffiths (2005), "Users that playing mobile legends in 20-80 hours per
week, can be called addicted gamers. Mobile legends addiction is a behavior that involves an
active interaction between humans and online games."

It means that playing this game within 20-80hours per week will now be called online
gaming addiction. Therefore, when you are already addicted to this game, you will gain more
interaction between humans and online games.