Opinion and Attitudes of Children Higher Grades of Primary School on Electronic Sports

Abstract

Electronic sport from day to day is becoming more popular and more interesting. Video games and gaming devices are designed to be as realistic as possible. Producers of video games want their games to be more interesting to players, to play in clans in order to connect more players, thereby is providing a difficulty in the game playing. The subject of research are opinions and attitudes of children on electronic sports, their basic knowledge and experience. The primary goal of the research is to create a realistic image of e-sports based on the conducted survey in order to objectively view further perspectives of the development of this sport. The tested subjects are middle school students. The total number of respondents is 100, of which makes up 50 girls and 50 boys. The results of the survey were processed by nonparametric statistics, using SPSS program. Besides the descriptive statistics and Chi-square test is shown, which were tested differences of expected and obtained frequency depending of gender. All research results are shown in graphs. General conclusion was that boys and girls have very difference opinions on e-sports, except for the future of ordinary and electronic sports.

The societal impact of electronic sport: a scoping review

“…From a demographic perspective, esport is predominantly played by young males (García & Murillo, 2020;Jansz & Martens, 2005;Lobel et al, 2019;Marcano Lárez, 2012;Rudolf et al, 2020;Stankovic & Kostadinovic, 2017). Competitive gaming can lead to short-term aggressive behavior, regardless of the game played and whether it contains violence (Adachi & Willoughby, 2011Schmierbach, 2010), short-term boost of concentration (Hagiwara et al, 2019) and after a certain duration increase testosterone, dehydroepiandrosterone and androstenedione (Gray et al, 2018).…”