Featured Matter: On-line gaming | Social Conduct and Personality

The marketplace for on-line video games has expanded alongside the better accessibility that transportable sensible units afford (Wu & Andrizal, 2021). While gaming has historically been framed as an leisure exercise, it’s now being included into areas together with training (e.g., local weather change studying; Wang & Zhang, 2026) and well being (e.g., sports activities simulation video games; Yang & Jin, 2024). Accordingly, motives for taking part in on-line video games have gotten extra different.

So, what attracts individuals to on-line gaming? Jeng and Teng (2008) discovered that persona traits have been robust predictors of on-line game-playing motivation. High ranges of openness to expertise, conscientiousness, extraversion, and agreeableness have been discovered to advertise gamers’ curiosity in discovery, role-playing, escapism, teamwork, and development in gaming contexts, whereas excessive neuroticism was linked with decrease teamwork motivation. Meanwhile, Huang et al. (2015) reported that adolescents’ leisure motivation, leisure gratification, peer relationships, and caring considerably predicted their utilization depth of on-line video games. When these situations weren’t met, gamers confirmed a decrease intention to proceed enjoying.

Addiction is a typical concern raised by these in favor of regulated use of on-line media, with research reporting poor sleep high quality (Yu & Zhang, 2023), impaired peer relationships (Jiang, 2018), and elevated aggression (Lee et al., 2019) as penalties of overuse. However, the motive to be used may impression this final result. Wang and Chu (2007) divided ardour for on-line gaming into two dimensions: harmonious and obsessive. While obsessive ardour was linked with detrimental outcomes, together with habit to on-line gaming, harmonious ardour didn’t present a big correlation with habit. Chiang and Lin (2010) examined state and trait types of playfulness within the context of psychological wants fulfilment throughout on-line gaming. They discovered that in-game (state) playfulness was a stronger indicator of gamers’ speedy expertise of gaming than was the playfulness trait, and that autonomy, competence, and relatedness wants predicted state playfulness.

For these searching for to cut back their leisure utilization of on-line video games, Jiang (2018) reported friends’ detrimental perspective towards on-line gaming and notion of alternate options as vital predictors of quitting gaming. Yang and Jin (2024) discovered that gratification of enjoyment wants was a stronger predictor of continued play intention than was fulfilment of accomplishment wants. The outcomes of those research have broad-ranging purposes, from growing methods to interact customers in studying and train actions, to informing the design of interventions to control sport play amongst these exhibiting signs of habit.

Other papers in our archives and scheduled for forthcoming publication evaluate the affect of various persona varieties on the perceived worth of on-line video games, and study leisure satisfaction within the context of on-line gaming. Keen to proceed monitoring the evolving analysis tendencies on this space from a behavioral and social psychology perspective? Sign up for a private subscription to SBP to realize entry to a number of thousand papers spanning the fields of social, behavioral, and developmental psychology.

Perceived worth and willingness to devour in on-line cellular video games – Boyuan Wu and Kwan Andrizal, 2021, 49(5), Article e10193.

Filial piety promotes on-line local weather change online game enjoying amongst Chinese youth – Yilin Wang and Heng Zhang, 2026, 54(3), Article e15544.

Determinants of gamers’ stickiness in on-line sports activities simulation video games: Evidence from China – Yan Yang and Shan Jin, 2024, 52(8), Article e13396.

Personality and motivations for taking part in on-line video games –  Shih-Ping Jeng and Ching-I Teng, 2008, 36(8), 1053–1060.

Motivations and gratification in an internet sport: Relationships amongst gamers’ vanity, self-concept, and interpersonal relationships – Chiao-Ling Huang, Shu Ching Yang, and An-Sing Chen, 2015, 43(2), 193–204.

College college students’ social media habit and sleep issues: Chain mediating results of concern of lacking out and nocturnal social media use – Tingrong Yu and Gen Zhang, 2023, 51(6), Article e12176.

Off the hook: Exploring causes for quitting enjoying on-line video games in China – Qiaolei Jiang, 2018, 46(12), 2097–2112.

Disruptive behaviors in on-line video games: Effects of ethical positioning, aggressive motivation, and aggression in “League of Legends” – Sung Je Lee, Eui Jun Jeong, and Joon Hyun Jeon, 2019, 47(2), Article e7570.

Harmonious ardour and obsessive ardour in enjoying on-line video games – Chih-Chien Wang and Yi-Shiu Chu, 2007, 35(7), 997–1006.

Early adolescent gamers’ playfulness and psychological wants in on-line video games – Yu-Tzu Chiang and Sunny S. S. J. Lin, 2010, 38(5), 627–636.