Affluence and mass media behaviours among youth in China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan

Greenberg, Bradley S.; Li, Hairong; Ku, Linlin; Tokinoya, Hiroshi

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“…This consistency adds utility to our model for understanding the influence of games; if it is known to satisfy basic needs, there is reason to expect it will have positive influences in other samples. The uses and gratifications theory focuses instead on differences in what satisfaction people consciously seek in media use, and research demonstrates that such satisfaction varies with media type (Greenberg & Hnilo, 1996), a media user's gender (Lucas & Sherry, 2004), or culture (Greenberg, Li, Ku, & Tokinoya, 1991). Yet, SDT has a long tradition of showing that people's goals, even when fulfilled, do not always yield need satisfaction, and therefore do not always predict persistence or well-being outcomes (Ryan, Kasser, Sheldon, & Deci, 1996).…”

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A Motivational Model of Video Game Engagement

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Ryan

2010

Review of General Psychology

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More Americans now play video games than go to the movies (NPD Group, 2009). The meteoric rise in popularity of video games highlights the need for research approaches that can deepen our scientific understanding of video game engagement. This article advances a theory-based motivational model for examining and evaluating the ways by which video game engagement shapes psychological processes and influences well-being. Rooted in self-determination theory (Deci & Ryan, 2000;Ryan & Deci, 2000a), our approach suggests that both the appeal and well-being effects of video games are based in their potential to satisfy basic psychological needs for competence, autonomy, and relatedness. We review recent empirical evidence applying this perspective to a number of topics including need satisfaction in games and short-term well-being, the motivational appeal of violent game content, motivational sources of postplay aggression, the antecedents and consequences of disordered patterns of game engagement, and the determinants and effects of immersion. Implications of this model for the future study of game motivation and the use of video games in interventions are discussed.Keywords: self-determination theory, motivation, video games Psychological research examining video games is presently undergoing a dramatic shift in focus. Until very recently, the preponderance of research in video games has been concern-focused, with studies aimed at identifying the potential negative effects of gaming. Specific foci of these research programs have included the relations between gaming and increased aggression, social isolation, and overuse (Anderson & Bushman, 2001;Grüsser, Thalemann, & Griffiths, 2007). Yet, more recently, a number of researchers have become intervention-focused, hoping to harness the magnetic motivational appeal of video games to help relieve pain and stress or customizing games for educational or health-related interventions (for a review, see Baranowski, Buday, Thompson, & Baranowski, 2008). Increasingly, intervention-focused researchers are demonstrating that games can positively influence both psychological and physical well-being.Although the goals of both concern-focused and interventionfocused research are dissimilar, both share a descriptive research approach: The methods and theories they employ evaluate the extent to which video games exert positive, negative, or no influence on specified outcomes under a given set of circumstances. What is less well understood and less widely studied are the mechanisms that underlie these positive and negative links.In this article, we outline a theory-based empirical model for understanding and evaluating the processes through which video games motivate sustained engagement, and how experiences with these games affect the psychological and physical well-being of players. Our approach is based on self-determination theory (SDT; Deci & Ryan, 2000;Ryan & Deci, 2000a), a macrotheory of human motivation that is principally concerned with the potential of social contexts to prov...

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Section: Other Perspectives On Video Game Motivationmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Motivational Model of Video Game Engagement

Przybylski

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Ryan

2010

Review of General Psychology

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“…It has primarily remained taxonomic, focusing on media use motivations and gratifications sought, found in steps four and up in the Rosengren model (Rubin, 1994). An array of taxono-mies have emerged, sorting uses and gratifications according to entertainment genre (Abelman, 1987;Babrow, 1987;Gantz, 1996), by media type (Greenberg & Hnilo, 1996;Selnow, 1984), and by country (Greenberg, Li, Ku, & Tokinoya, 1991;Tokinoya, 1996;Youichi, 1996). These studies show that there is no universal set of reasons for using media, motivations vary across media, genre, and country.…”

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Media Saturation and Entertainment-Education

Sherry¹

2002

Communication Theory

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Entertainment-education initiatives face unique problems in media-saturated countries such as the United States. Five media theories (uses and gratifications, cultivation, agenda setting, knowledge gap, and diffusion of innovations) are reviewed for guidance in creating effects in such environments. Recommendations for entertainment-education initiatives in media-saturated countries are suggested including: reconsideration of the type of effects possible, the use of individual differences to target and effect audiences, consideration of competing social factors in choice of message and sender, and combining efforts of campaigners to create a cultivation-level theme message.

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“…A wide array of taxonomies have emerged, sorting uses and gratifications according to entertainment genre (Abelman, 1987;Babrow, 1987;Gantz, 1996), motivation type (Atkin, 1985;Rubin, 1985), differences by media type (Greenberg & Hnilo, 1996;Selnow, 1984), and differences by country (Greenberg, Li, Ku, & Tokinoya, 1991;Tokinoya, 1996;Youichi, 1996). Rubin (1994) pointed out that the taxonomic tendencies in the literature often lead researchers to dismiss uses and gratifications as a non-theoretical research area.…”

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Toward an etiology of media use motivations: the role of temperament in media use

Sherry

2001

Communication Monographs

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Affluence and mass media behaviours among youth in China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan

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A Motivational Model of Video Game Engagement

A Motivational Model of Video Game Engagement

Media Saturation and Entertainment-Education

Toward an etiology of media use motivations: the role of temperament in media use

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