Video Game Players: Personality Characteristics and Demographic Variables
- 1 August 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 55 (1) , 271-276
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1984.55.1.271
Abstract
This study examined some personality characteristics and demographic variables of frequent video game users. A survey of video-game-playing attitudes, personality characteristics, and entertainment choices of high school teenagers was made. Frequent video-game players were young, male, and liked competitive activities, such as playing sports. They were bright and liked challenges and science fiction movies. Infrequent players tended to be older, female, not as bright and to like noncompetitive activities. These infrequent players did not like video games, were anxious about computers, and did not read very many books.Keywords
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