scholarly journals Biochemical Correlates of Video Game Use: From Physiology to Pathology. A Narrative Review

Life ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 775
Author(s):  
Barbara Carpita ◽  
Dario Muti ◽  
Benedetta Nardi ◽  
Francesca Benedetti ◽  
Andrea Cappelli ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Internet Gaming Disorder ◽  
Video Gaming ◽  
Game Playing ◽  
Video Game Playing ◽  
Internet Gaming ◽  
Brain Changes ◽  
Shed Light

In the last few decades, video game playing progressively became a widespread activity for many people, in childhood as well in adulthood. An increasing amount of literature has focused on pathological and non-pathological correlates of video game playing, with specific attention towards Internet Gaming Disorder (IGD). While many neurobiological studies in this field were based on neuroimaging, highlighting structural and functional brain changes among video game users, only a limited number of studies investigated the presence of biochemical correlates of video gaming. The present work aims to summarize and review the available literature about biochemical changes linked to video game use in IGD patients as well as non-pathological users, and the differences in between. Results may shed light on risks and benefits of video games, providing directions for further research on IGD treatment and, on other hand, on the potential role of video games in therapeutic or preventive protocols for specific conditions.

scholarly journals Effect of video game playing and a glucose preload on subjective appetite, subjective emotions, and food intake in overweight and obese boys

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 248-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brandon J.F. Gheller ◽  
Julia O. Totosy de Zepetnek ◽  
Jo M. Welch ◽  
Melissa D. Rossiter ◽  
Bohdan Luhovyy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Intake ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Primary Role ◽  
Game Playing ◽  
Healthy Weight ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Physiological Factors ◽  
Video Game Playing ◽  
Test Conditions

Video game playing (VGP) is associated with overweight/obesity (OW/OB). VGP and caloric preloads in the pre-meal environment influence short-term food intake (FI) in healthy-weight children. Therefore, the purpose of the present study was to examine the effect of pre-meal VGP and a glucose preload on subjective emotions, subjective appetite, and FI in boys with OW/OB. On 4 separate mornings, boys with OW/OB (n = 22; mean ± SD: age = 11.9 ± 1.6 years; body mass index percentile = 94.3 ± 3.9) participated in 4 test conditions. Two hours after a standardized breakfast, boys consumed equally sweetened preloads (250 mL) of sucralose (0 kcal) or glucose (200 kcal), with or without 30 min of subsequent VGP. Immediately after each test condition, FI was evaluated during an ad libitum pizza meal. Subjective appetite was measured at 0 (baseline), 15, and 30 min. Subjective emotions (aggression, anger, excitement, disappointment, happiness, upset, and frustration) were measured at 0 and 30 min. VGP did not affect FI, but the glucose preload decreased FI compared with the sucralose control (Δ = −103 ± 48 kcal, p < 0.01). However, cumulative FI (preload kcal + meal kcal) was 9% higher after the glucose preload (p < 0.01). Subjective appetite increased with time (p < 0.05) but was not influenced by preload or VGP. Frustration was the only subjective emotion that increased following VGP (p < 0.01). A glucose preload, but not VGP, suppressed FI in boys with OW/OB, suggesting a primary role of physiological factors in short-term FI regulation.

Video Game Addictive Symptom Level, Use Intensity, and Hedonic Experience: An Empirical Analysis of a Novel Survey Instrument (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bhavneet Walia ◽  
Jeeyoon Kim ◽  
Ignatius Ijere ◽  
Shane Sanders
Keyword(s):  
Video Game ◽  
Dopamine Release ◽  
Internet Gaming Disorder ◽  
Video Gaming ◽  
Curvilinear Relationship ◽  
Internet Gaming ◽  
Symptom Level ◽  
Hedonic Experience ◽  
Group Play ◽  
The Relationship

UNSTRUCTURED We conducted a survey of 835 individuals who regularly play video games to determine the relationship between Video Gaming (VG) intensity of use and hedonic experience of the user. We divide the sample into four quartiles by self-reported VG addictive symptom level (from the Internet Gaming Disorder Scale) and conduct polynomial regressions separately for each quartile. We find that the higher VG addictive symptom level groups experience a U-shaped (curvilinear) relationship between hedonic experience and intensity of play, whereas groups with lower VG addictive symptom levels exhibit no such relationship. Due to sensitization and tolerance, we conclude that high-symptom groups experience frustration and disappointment until achieving excessive dopamine release, at which point their hedonic experience improves in additional play. Conversely, low-symptom groups experience no such fall-and-rise pattern. Members of the latter group play the game for the direct experience; therefore, their hedonic experience is more directly related to events occurring in the game than to the increasingly-elusive pursuit of excessive dopamine release. We also find that high-symptom groups spend substantially more time and money to support VG use and are much more likely to engage in VG use at the expense of other important activities, such as work, sleep, and eating.

Feeling for an Audience

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-102
Author(s):  
Bonnie Ruberg ◽  
Amanda L. L. Cullen
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Emotional Labor ◽  
Streaming Video ◽  
Live Streaming ◽  
Instructional Videos ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Do So

Abstract The practice of live streaming video games is becoming increasingly popular worldwide (Taylor 2018). Live streaming represents more than entertainment; it is expanding the practice of turning play into work. Though it is commonly misconstrued as “just playing video games,” live streaming requires a great deal of behind-the-scenes labor, especially for women, who often face additional challenges as professionals within video game culture (AnyKey 2015). In this article, we shed light on one important aspect of the gendered work of video game live streaming: emotional labor. To do so, we present observations and insights drawn from our analysis of instructional videos created by women live streamers and posted to YouTube. These videos focus on “tips and tricks” for how aspiring streamers can become successful on Twitch. Building from these videos, we articulate the various forms that emotional labor takes for video game live streamers and the gendered implications of this labor. Within these videos, we identify key recurring topics, such as how streamers work to cultivate feelings in viewers, perform feelings, manage their own feelings, and use feelings to build personal brands and communities for their streams. Drawing from existing work on video games and labor, we move this scholarly conversation in important new directions by highlighting the role of emotional labor as a key facet of video game live streaming and insisting on the importance of attending to how the intersection of play and work is tied to identity.

scholarly journals Video game industry versus Internet Gaming Disorder: ‘The match of the century’

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-48
Author(s):  
Xavier Cabonell-Sánchez
Keyword(s):  
Video Game ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Internet Gaming Disorder ◽  
World Health ◽  
Video Gaming ◽  
Gaming Industry ◽  
Internet Gaming ◽  
History Of ◽  
Game Industry ◽  
Health Organization

This article consists of a reflection on the clash between the interests of the video gaming industry and the health of consumers as defined by the World Health Organization and the American Psychiatric Association. The article discusses the history of the self-regulation of the tobacco, alcohol and gambling industries, then goes on to discuss the extent to which video games may gain establishment acceptance as sports, much as bridge and chess did before them. The article concludes that the category of sport can serve as a mediating force between the industry and the health of gamers.

scholarly journals The role of video gaming motives in the relationship between personality risk traits and Internet Gaming Disorder

2021 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberta Biolcati ◽  
Stefano Passini ◽  
Virginia Pupi
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Sensation Seeking ◽  
Internet Gaming Disorder ◽  
Video Gaming ◽  
Gaming Disorder ◽  
Personality Dimension ◽  
Internet Gaming ◽  
Recherche De Sensations ◽  
The Relationship

The main aim of this study is to improve our knowledge on Internet Gaming Disorder (IGD), contributing to a common discourse concerning its risk profiles. Specifically, the study aims to assess the prevalence of addicted gamers among Italian online and offline gamers, accounting for gender and to investigate the mediation role of gaming motives on the relationship between personality risk traits and IGD. A total of 627 videogame players (55% women; mean age 27 years) recruited from social networking sites took part in the study and filled a questionnaire including gaming characteristics, the Internet Gaming Disorder Scale (IGDS9-SF), the Substance Use Risk Profile Scale (SURPS) and the Motives for Online Gaming Questionnaire (MOGQ). The prevalence rate of Internet gaming disorder was 5.3%. Hopelessness was the personality dimension that most differentiates gaming addicts from non-addicts. Results of the mediation model suggested that Hopelessness was both directly and indirectly (via escape, fantasy and recreational motives) associated with IGD. The motivations Escape and Fantasy also mediate between Anxiety sensitivity and IGD while Competition mediate between Sensation seeking trait and IGD. The evidence suggests that IGD is motivated by psychological mechanisms similar to those compelling substance abuse, but with its own unique features.RésuméCette étude a pour but d’améliorer notre connaissance de la dépendance au jeu sur Internet (DJI) afin d’enrichir le discours sur ses profils de risque. Elle vise plus précisément à évaluer la prévalence des joueurs dépendants parmi les joueurs italiens en ligne et hors ligne, en tenant compte du genre et en examinant le rôle de médiation des raisons qui motivent la pratique des jeux dans la relation entre les traits de personnalité présentant des risques et la DJI. En tout, 627 joueurs de jeux vidéo (55 % de femmes d’une moyenne d’âge de 27 ans) recrutés sur des sites de réseaux sociaux ont participé à l’étude et rempli un questionnaire comprenant des caractéristiques liées au jeu, l’échelle de la dépendance au jeu sur Internet (IGDS9-SF), l’échelle de profil de risque de consommation de substances psychoactives (SURPS) et le questionnaire sur les raisons de jouer en ligne (MOGQ). Le taux de prévalence de la dépendance au jeu sur Internet s’établissait à 5,3 %. Le désespoir constituait l’aspect de la personnalité qui distinguait le plus les personnes dépendantes au jeu des personnes non dépendantes. Les résultats du modèle de médiation donnaient à penser que le désespoir était associé directement et indirectement (raisons liées à la fuite, à l’imaginaire et aux loisirs) à la DJI. Les raisons Fuite et Imaginaire assurent la médiation entre la sensibilité à l’anxiété et la DJI, tandis que la concurrence assure la médiation entre la recherche de sensations et la DJI. Tout indique que la DJI est motivée par des mécanismes psychologiques similaires à ceux qui incitent à la toxicomanie, mais possède ses propres caractéristiques.

scholarly journals INFLUENCE OF VIDEO GAMES ON THE ACQUISITION OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Verbum ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. 112
Author(s):  
Domas Rudis ◽  
Svetozar Poštić
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Video Game ◽  
English Language ◽  
Game Playing ◽  
Video Game Playing ◽  
English Classes ◽  
The Media

In the past decade or two, there has been an obvious increase in the number of school children profici­ent in English. One of the reasons is the number of English classes per week, but even more important­ly, it is the influence of the media. Students are greatly exposed to video games. In this paper, a survey was conducted in order to find the connection between video-game playing and English proficiency. Ninety six students filled out the survey answering a range of question on the quantity and quality of their video game playing. The conclusion drawn was that video games have a profound impact on language learning. The areas of most benefit were vocabulary and pronunciation. As a form of highly desirable entertainment, video games provide a positive and motivating atmosphere, which is perfect for adopting a foreign language.

scholarly journals Computer games and creativity: the positive aspects and negative trends

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 29-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
N.V. Bogacheva ◽  
A.E. Voiskounsky
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Computer Games ◽  
Cognitive Abilities ◽  
Visual Information ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Game Playing ◽  
Video Game Playing ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Impact

The article is aimed at analysis of current studies of the link between video games experience and creativity. The impact of video game playing on the psychological specificity of gamers has repeatedly become a subject of many studies, though higher-level cognitive abilities, such as creativity, were rarely the subject of interest, remaining unexplored in the context of video games. Contrary to the earlier predictions that the increased amount of «readymade» visual information will reduce the imaginative ability, most of the current works show positive links between some types of creativity (in particular — visual) and playing video games. The latter becomes not only a source of inspiration but also a platform for creative realization. Many authors draw attention to possible negative aspects of creativity, in particular, the possibility of its antisocial applications. In this regard, the importance of studying the aggressiveness and empathy of computer players is increasing but the research data in this area is particularly contradictory.

scholarly journals Causes and Effects of Online Video Game Playing among Junior-Senior High School Students in Malang East Java

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-202
Author(s):  
I Dewa Putu Eskasasnanda
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Video Games ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Online Video ◽  
Game Playing ◽  
School Students ◽  
Video Game Playing ◽  
Online Video Games ◽  
Senior High School Students

Science and technology development causes a lot of changes in any fields including the form of popular games among the Junior and Senior High School students in Indonesia.The traditional games that are famous formerly have been replaced by the modern games like online video game.This article discusses the cause and effect of the online video game playing on the Junior and Senior High Schools students in Malang.This study reveal that students play video games online due to peers pressure; and online video games are liked because they are considered more modern, practical, realistic and varied. Initially, students play online video games to relieve the fatigue due to studying at school, but subsequently, they are becoming addicted, and reach a condition that they find it difficult to stop playing games.This condition will directly affect their achievement in school.

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