Zhao Shuguang, Zhang Wenjian
School of Journalism and Communication, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China.
Institute of Zijin Media Research, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China.
Front Psychol. 2022 Feb 7;13:682372. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.682372. eCollection 2022.
The link between gaming and negative outcomes has been explored by previous research and has led to the widespread adverse attitude toward gaming (ATG) and gamers, especially from those who are unfamiliar with this activity. By implementing an audit study with gamers and non-gamers as participants ( = 1,280), we found that non-gamer participants rated gamers less as similar to their ideal marriage partners compared to non-gamers, while gamer participants did not differentiate between gamers and non-gamers in the ideal marriage partners similarity rating (IMPSR). The findings also revealed that the difference in IMPSR between gamer and non-gamer participants toward gamers was completely mediated by their ATG. These results imply that non-gamers consider gaming as an undesired characteristic, and this is due to the relatively negative attitude of non-gamers toward gaming. Current study provides a new perspective on exploring the effect of gaming by investigating the social interaction between gamers and non-gamers in real-world and suggests that the unfamiliarity of gaming can lead to the negative ATG, which may, ultimately, place gamers at a disadvantage in the context of mate selection.
先前的研究已经探讨了游戏与负面结果之间的联系，并导致了对游戏（ATG）和玩家的广泛负面态度，尤其是那些不熟悉这项活动的人。通过对玩家和非玩家作为参与者进行一项审计研究（n = 1280），我们发现，与非玩家相比，非玩家参与者认为玩家与他们理想的婚姻伴侣的相似度较低，而玩家参与者在理想婚姻伴侣相似度评分（IMPSR）中对玩家和非玩家没有区别。研究结果还表明，玩家和非玩家参与者对玩家的IMPSR差异完全由他们的ATG介导。这些结果意味着非玩家将游戏视为一种不受欢迎的特征，这是由于非玩家对游戏的相对负面态度。当前的研究通过调查现实世界中玩家和非玩家之间的社会互动，为探索游戏的影响提供了一个新的视角，并表明对游戏的不熟悉会导致负面的ATG，这最终可能会使玩家在择偶背景中处于不利地位。
