@article{nokey,

title = {Games in Everyday Life: Profiles of Adolescent Digital Gaming Motives and Well-being Outcomes},

author = {Mikko Meriläinen and Lauri Hietajärvi and Riikka Aurava and Jaakko Stenros},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.teler.2023.100104

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772503023000646},

doi = {10.1016/j.teler.2023.100104},

issn = {2772-5030},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-10-21},

urldate = {2023-10-21},

journal = {Telematics and Informatics Reports },

volume = {12},

abstract = {Especially since the 2010s, we have seen rapidly increasing discussion and research on the causal and correlational relations between digital gaming and different dimensions of well-being. This quantitative study presents a starting point of a four-year longitudinal study of the connections between adolescents’ gaming motives, gaming culture participation, and different aspects of psychosocial well-being (digital engagement, internalising symptoms, and academic adjustment) in a sample (N = 2053) of actively gaming Finnish 6th and 8th graders (ages 11–14). Results show three distinct player profiles differing in gaming motives and well-being correlates: escapist game players, achiever game players, and recreational game players. These provide a starting point for exploring both the interactions between gaming and well-being and the stability of gaming motives over time.},

keywords = {Academic adjustment, Digital gaming, Gaming motives, Internalising symptoms, Wellbeing, Youth},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Karhulahti2022,

title = {Eight Hypotheses on Technology Use and Psychosocial Wellbeing: A Bicultural Phenomenological Study of Gaming during the COVID-19 Pandemic},

author = {Veli-Matti Karhulahti and Henri Nerg and Tanja Laitinen and Antti Päivinen and Yingrong Chen},

url = {http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-202208254339},

doi = {10.1007/s12144-022-03586-x},

issn = {1046-1310},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-08-22},

urldate = {2022-08-22},

journal = {Current Psychology},

abstract = {In this nonconfirmatory qualitative study, we pursued a range of hypotheses regarding how gaming operates in the lives and psychosocial wellbeing of those who actively play videogames during a crisis, such as the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Informed by an explorative survey (N = 793), interpretive phenomenological analysis was applied to interview data from actively gaming Chinese (n = 10) and Finnish (n = 10) participants. Our findings demonstrate how the general increase of pandemic-time gaming did not manifest in all player groups, but in some life contexts gaming activity rather decreased along with reformations in subjective meaning hierarchies and values. Ultimately, eight subordinate themes were refined into testable hypotheses. The study encourages policies that promote socially supportive gaming during pandemic-like situations to consider including personally meaningful solitary play in their recommendations and highlighting context-specificity over generalization. Finally, as almost all our data points echoing experiences of decreasing gaming activity came from China, we stress the importance of culturally diverse samples in the psychological study of global phenomena.},

keywords = {COVID-19, Gaming, Qualitative Methods, Technology use, Wellbeing},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}