Mediational role of gaming motives in the associations of the Five Factor Model of personality with weekly and disordered gaming in adolescents

Overviewing Gaming Motivation and Its Associated Psychological and Sociodemographic Variables: A PRISMA Systematic Review

“…López-Fernández et al [92]. Weekly gaming was positively correlated to customization, fantasy, recreation, competition, cognitive development, coping, social interaction, and violent reward.…”

“…Results regarding other motivations not pertaining to the Self-Determination Theory as a framework [31,72] were as follows. Gaming addiction had positive associations with as follows: escapism (n = 9) ( [36,71,76,79,92,122,136], [26,121]); social motivation (n = 6) [28,36,41,68,83,92]; achievement (n = 4) [36,68,83,122], with Bányai et al [122], finding it to be a positive predictor for both recreational and esport gamers; competition (n = 4) [28,71,92,122]; coping ðn = 3Þ [28,41,92]; customization (n = 3) [28,71,92], even though López-Fernández et al [28] found this result only in their adolescent sample; recreation (n = 2) [28,92]; violent reward (n = 2) [28,92]; fantasy (n = 2) [28,92]; cognitive development (n = 2) [28,92]; violent reward (n = 2) [28,92]; self-gratification (n = 1) [41...…”

“…Negative associations of gaming addiction were as follows: social (n = 3) [73,133,136]; fantasy (n = 2) [92,122], but this result was found only for recreational players as well in the study done by Bányai et al [122]; coping (n = 1) [122], but only for recreational players; competition (n = 1) [92]; recreation (n = 1) [92]; customizing (n = 1) [28], but this result was found by López-Fernández et al [28] only in the young adult sample and skill development [121]. All the results regarding gaming addiction are summarized in Table 7.…”

Individual and Interpersonal Factors Associated with the Incidence, Persistence, and Remission of Internet Gaming Disorders Symptoms in an Adolescents Sample

“…At the individual level, impulsivity, aggressiveness, hostility, sensation seeking, anxiety, depression, or social withdrawal have been associated with IGDs [ 11 , 19 ]. In addition, high neuroticism, low conscientiousness, low extraversion, and low agreeableness have been linked to IGDs and Internet use disorder [ 20 , 21 , 22 ], the conscientiousness trait being the one that mainly shows the protective role of the online game [ 23 ]. The most relevant interpersonal factors associated with IGDs have been problematic family relationships, family cohesion difficulties, parents’ mental health problems, and the absence of rules for Internet game use [ 11 ].…”

“…A positive relationship between depression, anxiety, impulsivity, hostility, being a man, time spent playing video games and IGDs, and a negative relationship between emotional stability, conscientiousness, extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness, family functioning, and IGDs is expected in both T1 and T2 [ 11 , 15 , 25 ]; (3) to examine individual and interpersonal factors for adolescents who developed IGDs (incidence), those who maintained IGDs (persistence), and those who had remission of IGDs (remission) on two separate occasions over nine-month follow-up periods. It was hypothesized that there will be an increase in anxiety, depression, impulsivity, and hostility [ 19 , 38 ] as well as low emotional stability, conscientiousness, extraversion and agreeableness [ 21 ], and difficulties in family functioning [ 11 ] in adolescents who initiate and maintain IGDs, while an opposite effect is expected for adolescents in whom IGDs have remitted [ 36 ]. However, it is also expected that there may be a change in the individual and interpersonal factors that will be associated with the different development pattern in the course of IGDs; and (4) to estimate risk and protective factors on the first occasion (T1) that predict the IGDs on the second occasion (T2).…”