How do we make the virtual world a better place? Social discrimination in online gaming, sense of community, and well-being

Nguyen, Sarah Hoan; Sun, Qiusi; Williams, Dmitri

doi:10.1016/j.tele.2021.101747

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“…Perceived neighborhood environmental attributes were obtained from the questionnaire survey. Based on the work by Nguyen et al ( 37 ) and Wood et al ( 15 ), variables depicting subjectively measured environment attributes include public transport convenience, pedestrian and leisure facility, safety, road accessibility, and environmental quality. Note that these variables were also developed on a five-point Likert scale, ranging from “1” (extremely unimportant) to “5” (extremely important).…”

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Associations between neighborhood environment and sense of community belonging in urban China: Examining mediation effects of neighborly interactions and community satisfaction

Jiang

Huang

et al. 2023

Front. Public Health

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IntroductionImproving sense of community belonging (SCB) would help people live longer, happier lives. Although the importance of neighborhood environment on SCB is stressed in the literature, few studies have paid attention to perceived environment, as well as consider mediation effects such as neighborhood social interactions and place satisfaction.MethodsRelied on a sample of 1051 respondents in Shanghai in 2018, this study investigates the associations between both objective and perceived neighborhood environment attributes and SCB in urban China, mediated by neighborly interactions and community satisfaction using structural equation modeling.ResultsThe results suggest that the influence of perceived neighborhood environment on SCB is more prominent than that of objective neighborhood environment. In detail, perceived pedestrian facilities and perceived leisure facilities are vital to SCB, while among objective neighborhood environmental elements, the influence of land use entropy, park density and street greenery are significant. Then, neighborhood environmental attributes can influence SCB by affecting neighborly interactions and community satisfaction. We also identify gender differences in the effects of neighborhood environment upon SCB.DiscussionGiven increasing awareness of the connection, neighborhood environment may prove to be valuable assets to improve individuals' psychosocial constructs such as SCB.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Associations between neighborhood environment and sense of community belonging in urban China: Examining mediation effects of neighborly interactions and community satisfaction

Jiang

Huang

et al. 2023

Front. Public Health

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“…Social discrimination occurs, especially for those who are lower-ranked on the game and are younger, and those who manifest the personality factors of low agreeableness and neuroticism. 22 Female gamers unfortunately experience harms from harassment, and stereotyping. 23 Disturbed sleep is common for habitual gamers.…”

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confidence: 99%

Practical psychiatry: Taking gaming seriously – a primer for psychiatrists on gamers and gaming culture

Looi,

Wilkes,

Bastiampillai

et al. 2023

Australas Psychiatry

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Objective Up to three billion, of the eight billion people in the world, play videogames. Gaming is a significant global sociocultural influence. This primer will aid psychiatrists in understanding sociocultural milieux of gamers, who include patients and their communities. Method A rapid narrative review. Results Benefits include expression of personality, identity and culture through social aspects of gaming. Improved physical health, neurocognition, self-efficacy and quality of life are associated with gaming in those with certain mental health disorders including schizophrenia. Harms may include in-game discrimination, disordered gaming, as well as encouragement of online gambling. There is no longitudinal association between violent games and youth aggression. Conclusions Psychiatrists should enquire about gaming as part of the sociocultural milieux of patients’ lives, and the perceived mental health benefits and harms of gaming.

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“…Several studies on virtual worlds have demonstrated the negative impact brought about by the virtual space. For example, social discrimination and violence are popular in virtual worlds [21]. In order to avoid such flaws, the judgment of the audience on virtual worlds plays an important role.…”

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“…Firstly, the results of this paper contribute to the theoretical study of virtual spaces and the metaverse. Current research on virtual spaces has mostly been conducted on the impacts of virtual spaces, rather than exploring how we design and use virtual spaces from a managerial perspective [3,21]. The lacking of a design perspective accordingly results in an undeveloped virtual space [18,32].…”

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Designing an Attractive Metaverse: Research on Design Factors Influencing Audience Satisfaction with a Virtual Space Based on QCA

Fang

Dong

Weng

et al. 2022

JTAER

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Consistent with the imminence of the metaverse, academics and industry have been paying more attention to the research into the metaverse. The viewpoint that present studies have linked the metaverse to the virtual space provides an opportunity to detect the metaverse. However, current research into virtual spaces remains undeveloped from the perspective of design, especially with a lack of an ergonomic and service viewpoint. Based on this, this study integrates ergonomics, information science and service management to determine how to build an attractive virtual space. Through 102 samples, employing qualitative comparative analysis, three main configurations are proposed, and contribute to filling this research gap. The results of this study indicate that, for designing a virtual space, human interactions with the virtual space should be taken into consideration selectively, from an internal or external perspective. As for the value-delivery process, the position of the audience should be reconsidered with the invalidity of value co-creation.

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How do we make the virtual world a better place? Social discrimination in online gaming, sense of community, and well-being

Cited by 17 publications

References 67 publications

Associations between neighborhood environment and sense of community belonging in urban China: Examining mediation effects of neighborly interactions and community satisfaction

Associations between neighborhood environment and sense of community belonging in urban China: Examining mediation effects of neighborly interactions and community satisfaction

Practical psychiatry: Taking gaming seriously – a primer for psychiatrists on gamers and gaming culture

Designing an Attractive Metaverse: Research on Design Factors Influencing Audience Satisfaction with a Virtual Space Based on QCA

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