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The Relationship between Digital Gaming and Behaviors, Thoughts, and Feelings among Saudi College Students
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Alamri, Manal – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This study is investigating the relationships between playing video games and aggressive behaviors, thoughts, and feelings. The participants are Male and female Saudi college students at Taibah University. The study conducted for two main purposes. Examining correlations between the amount of violence in video games played and aggressive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Video Games, Aggression
Withdrawing to a Virtual World: Associations between Subtypes of Withdrawal, Media Use, and Maladjustment in Emerging Adults
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Nelson, Larry J.; Coyne, Sarah M.; Howard, Emily; Clifford, Brandon N. – Developmental Psychology, 2016
An approach-avoidance model of social withdrawal (Asendorpf, 1990) identifies 3 types of social withdrawal including shyness, unsociability, and avoidance. Each appears to be uniquely associated with varying indicators of maladjustment in emerging adulthood (Nelson, 2013) but little, if any, work has been done to see how they might be linked to…
Descriptors: Withdrawal (Psychology), Young Adults, Social Media, Electronic Mail
Sex, Lies, and Video Games: Moral Panics or Uses and Gratifications
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Puri, Kunal; Pugliese, Rudy – Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 2012
This study examined video game-playing aggression among graduate and undergraduate students at Rochester Institute of Technology in upstate New York. The following three research questions were posed: In the context of video game playing, what differences are there in levels of aggression in relation to sex? What differences are there in levels of…
Descriptors: Empathy, Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Aggression
Video Game Playing and Academic Performance in College Students
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Burgess, Stephen R.; Stermer, Steven Paul; Burgess, Melinda C. R. – College Student Journal, 2012
The relations between media consumption, especially TV viewing, and school performance have been extensively examined. However, even though video game playing may have replaced TV viewing as the most frequent form of media usage, relatively little research has examined its relations to school performance, especially in older students. We surveyed…
Descriptors: Homework, Mass Media Effects, Television, College Students
Violent Video Games and the Supreme Court: Lessons for the Scientific Community in the Wake of Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association
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Ferguson, Christopher J. – American Psychologist, 2013
In June 2011 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that video games enjoy full free speech protections and that the regulation of violent game sales to minors is unconstitutional. The Supreme Court also referred to psychological research on violent video games as "unpersuasive" and noted that such research contains many methodological flaws.…
Descriptors: Video Games, Violence, Court Litigation, Federal Courts
Social Evaluations of Stereotypic Images in Video Games: Unfair, Legitimate, or "Just Entertainment"?
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Brenick, Alaina; Henning, Alexandra; Killen, Melanie; O'Connor, Alexander; Collins, Michael – Youth & Society, 2007
The aim of this study is to assess late adolescents' evaluations of and reasoning about gender stereotypes in video games. Female (n = 46) and male (n = 41) students, predominantly European American, with a mean age 19 years, are interviewed about their knowledge of game usage, awareness and evaluation of stereotypes, beliefs about the influences…
Descriptors: Sex Stereotypes, Gender Differences, Video Games, Whites