PMID- 35901542
OWN - NLM
STAT- Publisher
LR  - 20231013
IS  - 1873-6327 (Electronic)
IS  - 0306-4603 (Linking)
VI  - 134
DP  - 2022 Nov
TI  - Investigating gaming disorder and individual differences in gaming motives among 
      professional and non-professional gamers: An empirical study.
PG  - 107416
LID - S0306-4603(22)00182-4 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.addbeh.2022.107416 [doi]
AB  - The present study investigates the relationship between Gaming Disorder (GD) and 
      individual differences in gaming motives and how they might differ between three 
      groups of gamers. The first group stated to be professional gamers (n = 129; 
      2,49%), the second group consisted of non-professional gamers, who intended to 
      become professional gamers (n = 646; 12,45%), and the third group included the 
      remaining non-professional gamers (n = 4,412; 85,06%). Gaming motives were 
      assessed via the Motives for Online Gaming Questionnaire (MOGQ), and GD was 
      assessed with the Gaming Disorder Test (GDT). Results revealed that professional 
      gamers and those intending to become professional were very similar regarding 
      their gaming motive expressions. In contrast, non-professional gamers without 
      esports ambitions scored significantly lower on all gaming motives, except for 
      the recreational motive which was comparable across all groups. Several 
      consistent gaming motive-GD associations appeared across the three gamer groups, 
      with the most robust finding being that higher escapism motive expressions relate 
      to greater GDT scores. The present study sheds light on an emerging field of 
      research attempting to better understand competitive gaming in the context of 
      esports.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2022 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
FAU - Montag, Christian
AU  - Montag C
AD  - Department of Molecular Psychology, Institute for Psychology and Education, Ulm 
      University, Ulm, Germany. Electronic address: christian.montag@uni-ulm.de.
FAU - Schivinski, Bruno
AU  - Schivinski B
AD  - School of Media and Communication, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.
FAU - Kannen, Christopher
AU  - Kannen C
AD  - Department of Molecular Psychology, Institute for Psychology and Education, Ulm 
      University, Ulm, Germany.
FAU - Pontes, Halley M
AU  - Pontes HM
AD  - Department of Organizational Psychology, Birkbeck, University of London, London, 
      United Kingdom.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20220628
PL  - England
TA  - Addict Behav
JT  - Addictive behaviors
JID - 7603486
SB  - IM
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Escapism
OT  - Esports
OT  - Gaming Disorder Test
OT  - Gaming disorder
OT  - Gaming motives
OT  - Motives for Online Gaming Questionnaire
OT  - Professional gamers
EDAT- 2022/07/29 06:00
MHDA- 2022/07/29 06:00
CRDT- 2022/07/28 18:15
PHST- 2022/04/02 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2022/05/24 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2022/06/23 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2022/07/29 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2022/07/29 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2022/07/28 18:15 [entrez]
AID - S0306-4603(22)00182-4 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.addbeh.2022.107416 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Addict Behav. 2022 Nov;134:107416. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2022.107416. Epub 2022 
      Jun 28.