Gaming motivations, avatar-self identification and symptoms of online game addiction

Zhong, Zhi Jin; Yao, Mike

doi:10.1080/01292986.2012.748814

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“…Motivation for playing internet games has been researched in at least 42 studies (e.g., Beard & Wickham, 2016;Carlisle & Carrington, 2015;Hussain, Williams, & Griffiths, 2015;Király, Griffiths, & Demetrovics, 2015;Yee, 2006b;Zhong & Yao, 2013). Common motivational risk factors revealed in these studies include achievement, socialization, negatively coping with real-world feelings or situations, and immersion in fantasy.…”

Section: Motivation and Igdmentioning

confidence: 99%

Personality, Motivation, and Internet Gaming Disorder: Conceptualizing the Gamer

Carlisle¹,

Neukrug²,

Pribesh

et al. 2019

J Addict Offender Couns

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Section: Motivation and Igdmentioning

confidence: 99%

Personality, Motivation, and Internet Gaming Disorder: Conceptualizing the Gamer

Carlisle¹,

Neukrug²,

Pribesh

et al. 2019

J Addict Offender Couns

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“…Video game research has demonstrated that character attachment and avatar self-identification can have important motivational and behavioral consequences. [39][40][41] Given this, the extent to which avatar users establish psychological connection with their avatars could play a critical role in the effect of avatar-based social category representations on performance in stereotype-relevant domains, as one's relationship with his/her avatar could affect the sense of control and responsibility, which, in turn, could influence cognitive functioning and motivation. This remains an intriguing question that should be addressed in future research.…”

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confidence: 99%

Does the Mask Govern the Mind?: Effects of Arbitrary Gender Representation on Quantitative Task Performance in Avatar-Represented Virtual Groups

Lee

Nass²,

Bailenson³

2014

Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking

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Virtual environments employing avatars for self-representation-including the opportunity to represent or misrepresent social categories-raise interesting and intriguing questions as to how one's avatar-based social category shapes social identity dynamics, particularly when stereotypes prevalent in the offline world apply to the social categories visually represented by avatars. The present experiment investigated how social category representation via avatars (i.e., graphical representations of people in computer-mediated environments) affects stereotyperelevant task performance. In particular, building on and extending the Proteus effect model, we explored whether and how stereotype lift (i.e., a performance boost caused by the awareness of a domain-specific negative stereotype associated with outgroup members) occurred in virtual group settings in which avatar-based gender representation was arbitrary. Female and male participants (N = 120) were randomly assigned either a female avatar or a male avatar through a process masked as a random drawing. They were then placed in a numerical minority status with respect to virtual gender-as the only virtual female (male) in a computer-mediated triad with two opposite-gendered avatars-and performed a mental arithmetic task either competitively or cooperatively. The data revealed that participants who were arbitrarily represented by a male avatar and competed against two ostensible female avatars showed strongest performance compared to others on the arithmetic task. This pattern occurred regardless of participants' actual gender, pointing to a virtual stereotype lift effect. Additional mediation tests showed that task motivation partially mediated the effect. Theoretical and practical implications for social identity dynamics in avatar-based virtual environments are discussed.

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“…According to Zhong and Yao [14], avatar is closely related to the self-sense of online gamers. Social gamers prefer to be dynamic in their collective activities in their online worlds.…”

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An Influence of Game Avatar on Real World

Choi*

2019

IJITEE

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The aim of this study is to examine the influence of gamers’ avatar self-identification in massively multiplayer online role playing game (MMORPG) play on their real lives. By proposing the concepts of avatar self-identification, this study explores a model that develops the antecedents of avatar self-identification and the role in influencing gamers’ real lives. For empirical analysis, this study gathered data from 228 university students in South Korean by a survey method and analyzes the data with AMOS 24. The results show as follows. First, social interaction and social support that gamers perceive in MMORPGs increase their avatar self-identification. Second, the gamers’ avatar self-identification increases their social capital and self-esteem in real lives. Finally, social interaction that gamers perceive in MMORPGs increases their social capital in real lives through their avatar self-identification. And, social support that gamers perceive in MMORPGs increases their self-esteem in real lives through their avatar self-identification. The research contribution on game research is to pay scholarly attention to the positive effect of MMORPGs in the perspective of avatar self-identification

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Gaming motivations, avatar-self identification and symptoms of online game addiction

Cited by 57 publications

References 52 publications

Personality, Motivation, and Internet Gaming Disorder: Conceptualizing the Gamer

Personality, Motivation, and Internet Gaming Disorder: Conceptualizing the Gamer

Does the Mask Govern the Mind?: Effects of Arbitrary Gender Representation on Quantitative Task Performance in Avatar-Represented Virtual Groups

An Influence of Game Avatar on Real World

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