Gamer Widow: A Phenomenological Study of Spouses of Online Video Game Addicts

Northrup, Jason; Shumway, Sterling T.

doi:10.1080/01926187.2013.847705

Cited by 21 publications

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“…Among the 13 articles were five correlational studies ( Hussain et al, 2012 ; Lee & Kim, 2017 ; Li & Wang, 2013 ; Spekman et al, 2013 ; Volmer et al, 2014;), five literature reviews ( Bass, 2015 ; Freeman, 2008 ; Dong & Potenza, 2014 ; Kuss, 2013 ; Young, 2009 ), one systematic review (29 quantitative studies and seven treatment studies) ( King & Delfabbro, 2014 ), one meta-analysis (on 10 high-quality articles) ( Meng et al, 2014 ), and one qualitative study ( Northrup & Shumway, 2014 ). A summary of the 13 included articles is provided in Table 1 .…”

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“…As the gaming industry continued to evolve and expand markets, games became more sophisticated and interactive. Today, MMORPG, such as World of Warcraft and League of Legends , allow gamers from diverse racial backgrounds, age groups, and geographical locations to connect with one another through custom-built characters to fight virtual battles in real time as a means to improving their characters’ standings ( Bass, 2015 ; Northrup & Shumway, 2014 ). Each game functions as a self-contained society, with its own unique currency, scenery, and rules.…”

Section: Massive Multiplayer Online Role-playing Gamesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Internet Gaming Disorder: An Emergent Health Issue for Men

2018

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Internet gaming is a legitimate leisure activity worldwide; however, there are emerging concerns that vast numbers of gamers are becoming addicted. In 2013, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) classified Internet Gaming Disorder (IGD) as a condition warranting more clinical research ahead of formalizing it as a mental disorder. Proposed as a behavioral addiction, IGD shares many similarities in both physical and psychosocial manifestations with substance use disorder, including cerebral changes on functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Among the gaming population, compared to females, adolescent and adult males demonstrate far more addictive internet gaming use in terms of screen hours, craving, and negative impacts on health, which have, in isolated incidents, also caused death. The current article draws findings from a scoping review of literature related to IGD as a means to raising awareness about an emergent men’s health issue. Included are three themes: (a) unveiling the nature, impacts and symptoms of IGD; (b) conceptualizing IGD through neuroscience; and (c) treatment approaches to IGD. Afforded by these themes is an overview and synthesis of the existing literature regarding IGD as a means of providing direction for much needed research on gaming addiction and orientating primary care providers (PCPs) to the specificities of IGD in men’s health. The findings are applied to a discussion of the connections between IGD and masculinity and the importance of recognizing how behaviors such as social isolation and game immersion can be maladaptive coping strategies for males.

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Internet Gaming Disorder: An Emergent Health Issue for Men

2018

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“…Research has shown that people close to MMORPG-gamers experience the gaming as disturbing when it alters the gamer's personality, when its sabotages or makes a 'normal' shared life difficult (see Northrup, 2008). We set out to find out the rationales according to which people who had experienced negative consequences of excessive gaming in a close relationship with a gamer would conceptualize the gaming-evoked strains on the relationships.…”

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‘Present yet absent’: Negotiating commitment and intimacy in life with an excessive online role gamer

Hellman

Karjalainen

Majamäki

2016

New Media & Society

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The study examines how persons in a close relationship with a gamer of massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPG) perceive relationship problems caused by the gaming hobby. Revisiting the concept of pure relationships by Anthony Giddens, we analysed eight deep interviews with persons who claim their relationship with the gamer had ended or turned downhill due to the volume of the gaming. The study formulates a conception of the clashes of interest in areas of (1) situational clashes in everyday choreography, (2) shifts in long view prioritizing, (3) deficient communication and (4) understandings of self and autonomy in relation to gaming and relationship. These conceptual paths serve to understand the problems from a sociological perspective. On a more general level, the study demonstrates the timeliness in devoting attention to the premises under which intimacy and commitment are negotiated in offline and online relationship constellations.

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“…Bu oyunlarda dünyanın çeşitli coğrafyalarından kullanıcılar oyun karakterlerini geliştirmeye ça-lışırken gerçek zamanlı müsabakalar/savaşlar yapmaktadırlar (Northrup & Shumway, 2014). Hem küçük hem de büyük oyunlarla oynanan çevrimiçi bilgisayar oyunları, toplumun özellikle de genç nüfusun bü-yük ilgisini çekmektedir.…”

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