Disentangling the Net of Needs Satisfaction and Gaming Disorder Symptoms in Adult Gamers

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14230%2F24%3A00139429" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14230/24:00139429 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0747563224001559" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0747563224001559</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2024.108287" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.chb.2024.108287</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Disentangling the Net of Needs Satisfaction and Gaming Disorder Symptoms in Adult Gamers

Original language description

Despite the official inclusion of Gaming Disorder (GD) in the International Classification of Diseases, there is still an ongoing debate over its conceptualization and assessment. Several necessary steps have been recommended, including exploring the structure and the relationships of the GD symptoms, whilst considering how gaming may satisfy/meet the gamers’ needs. To address this aim, the responses of a large sample of active/dedicated adult gamers (N = 3895; Mage = 26.17; SDage = 6.48; 82.5% men; gaming hours per week M = 26.06) were analyzed using a network analysis in the present study. GD symptoms were assessed with AICA-S and needs satisfaction, both outside and inside the game world, with the Balanced Measure of Psychological Needs and Player Experience of Needs Satisfaction, respectively. The GD network was revealed to be composed of Time-Related, Cognitive-Emotional (with Craving and Tolerance most central), and Behavioral-Consequential (with Continuation Despite Consequences most central) symptom clusters. Escapism was shown to be the bridge between real-life needs, in-game needs, and GD symptoms. The results highlight the necessity to reconsider the structure of GD symptoms and their differential roles. Diagnostic, assessment, and treatment implications are illustrated.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA21-30769S" target="_blank" >GA21-30769S: Gaming disorder from longitudinal and psychodynamic perspectives</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Computers in Human Behavior

ISSN

0747-5632

e-ISSN

1873-7692

Volume of the periodical

158

Issue of the periodical within the volume

September

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

1-13

UT code for WoS article

001346389800001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85193425143