TY - JOUR
T1 - How do passion for video games and needs frustration explain time spent gaming?
AU - Mills, Devin J.
AU - Milyavskaya, Marina
AU - Mettler, Jessica
AU - Heath, Nancy L.
AU - Derevensky, Jeffrey L.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 The British Psychological Society
Copyright:
Copyright 2018 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2018/4
Y1 - 2018/4
N2 - Research applying self-determination theory and the dualistic model of passion (DMP) has shown video games may satisfy basic psychological needs (i.e., competence, autonomy, and relatedness) and be identified as a passion. The DMP distinguishes between healthy or harmonious passion and problematic or obsessive passion (OP), with the latter reflecting an overreliance towards one's passion to obtain needs satisfaction. The experience of daily obstructions to needs satisfaction, or needs frustration (NF), may facilitate such an overreliance. This study explored how NF and both types of passion explain the amount of time that university students spend gaming. The overall association between NF and time spent gaming was not significant. However, for video game users with low levels of OP for gaming, there was a significant negative association between NF and time spent gaming. Additionally, evidence of a mutually reinforcing association between NF and OP for gaming indicates that a vicious cycle exists, whereby a strong OP for gaming predicts and is reinforced by greater NF. The theoretical implications are discussed.
AB - Research applying self-determination theory and the dualistic model of passion (DMP) has shown video games may satisfy basic psychological needs (i.e., competence, autonomy, and relatedness) and be identified as a passion. The DMP distinguishes between healthy or harmonious passion and problematic or obsessive passion (OP), with the latter reflecting an overreliance towards one's passion to obtain needs satisfaction. The experience of daily obstructions to needs satisfaction, or needs frustration (NF), may facilitate such an overreliance. This study explored how NF and both types of passion explain the amount of time that university students spend gaming. The overall association between NF and time spent gaming was not significant. However, for video game users with low levels of OP for gaming, there was a significant negative association between NF and time spent gaming. Additionally, evidence of a mutually reinforcing association between NF and OP for gaming indicates that a vicious cycle exists, whereby a strong OP for gaming predicts and is reinforced by greater NF. The theoretical implications are discussed.
KW - basic psychological need frustration
KW - dualistic model of passion
KW - gaming disorder
KW - self-determination theory
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85040742520&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/bjso.12239
DO - 10.1111/bjso.12239
M3 - Article
C2 - 29352471
AN - SCOPUS:85040742520
VL - 57
SP - 461
EP - 481
JO - British Journal of Social Psychology
JF - British Journal of Social Psychology
SN - 0144-6665
IS - 2
ER -