von der Heiden Juliane M, Braun Beate, Müller Kai W, Egloff Boris
Department of Psychology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany.
Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, University Medical Center, Mainz, Germany.
Front Psychol. 2019 Jul 26;10:1731. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01731. eCollection 2019.
Video gaming is an extremely popular leisure-time activity with more than two billion users worldwide (Newzoo, 2017). However, the media as well as professionals have underscored the potential dangers of excessive video gaming. With the present research, we aimed to shed light on the relation between video gaming and gamers' psychological functioning. Questionnaires on personality and psychological health as well as video gaming habits were administered to 2,734 individuals (2,377 male, 357 female, = 23.06, = 5.91). Results revealed a medium-sized negative correlation between problematic video gaming and psychological functioning with regard to psychological symptoms, affectivity, coping, and self-esteem. Moreover, gamers' reasons for playing and their preferred game genres were differentially related to psychological functioning with the most notable findings for distraction-motivated players as well as action game players. Future studies are needed to examine whether these psychological health risks reflect the causes or consequences of video gaming.
电子游戏是一项极其受欢迎的休闲活动，全球用户超过20亿（Newzoo，2017）。然而，媒体以及专业人士都强调了过度玩电子游戏的潜在危险。通过本研究，我们旨在阐明电子游戏与玩家心理功能之间的关系。我们对2734名个体（2377名男性，357名女性，平均年龄=23.06岁，标准差=5.91）进行了关于人格、心理健康以及电子游戏习惯的问卷调查。结果显示，问题性电子游戏与心理症状、情感、应对方式和自尊等心理功能之间存在中等程度的负相关。此外，玩家的游戏动机及其偏好的游戏类型与心理功能存在差异相关，其中以消遣为动机的玩家以及动作游戏玩家的相关发现最为显著。未来需要进行研究，以检验这些心理健康风险是反映了电子游戏的原因还是后果。
