Exploring the Effects of Violent Video Games on Healthcare Trainees

Krause, Karlie A.; Smyth, Chelsie; Jansen, Kate L.

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“…Longitudinal research conducted with a nationally representative sample of adults in the USA, for example, found that following the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013, greater exposure to graphic (i.e. bloody) images of the victims was associated with more severe symptoms of acute stress after concern about violent videogames, longitudinal research conducted in Singapore has found that adolescents who play them do not experience poorer mental health than their counterparts (Ferguson and Wang, 2021), while cross-sectional research conducted in the USA has found that graduate-level healthcare students who play them experience fewer symptoms of anxiety and discomfort when placed in tense or urgent settings (Krause, Smyth and Jansen, 2020).…”

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Investigating the experience of viewing extreme real-world violence online: Naturalistic evidence from an online discussion forum

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Wilsdon

et al. 2022

New Media & Society

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This study investigates the psychological impact of viewing user-generated content depicting extreme real-world violence. Eight threads were harvested from a publicly accessible online discussion forum in which people discussed their experiences of witnessing real-world torture, maiming or death online. Reflexive thematic analysis was used to systematically analyse these threads. The themes capture the contradictory ways in which people react to viewing extreme real-world violence online, with some finding it intensely distressing and others using it as a resource for psychological grounding or (perceived) strengthening. Based on this analysis, we highlight pathways that may lead to the cessation or continuation of viewing such content and argue that greater research on this seemingly common but under-studied experience is warranted.

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Investigating the experience of viewing extreme real-world violence online: Naturalistic evidence from an online discussion forum

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Nicklin

Wilsdon

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New Media & Society

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“…Kristoffer S. Fjællingsdal and Christian A. Klöckner (2020), in Green across the board: Board games as tools for dialogue and simplified environmental communication , use game nights and focus group interviews with 17 players to display the possibilities of environmental board gaming. Karlie A. Krause et al (2020) address one of the most debated topics in video gaming – game violence and its effects on players. Their Exploring the effects of violent video games on healthcare trainees , based on a survey with 81 students, argues that playing such games may in fact lower personal distress scores in certain professions.…”

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Roles, Plays, and the Roles We Play While Playing Games

Harviainen¹

2020

Simulation & Gaming

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Simulation & Gaming, I am very happy to see the ways in which more and more volumes on role-playing studies are now coming out from high-profile publishers. Several of them discuss the ways in which the formalized forms-role-playing games, as opposed role-plays, began, and how their related theories have developed. Jon Peterson's (in press) upcoming The Elusive Shift, due out in December 2020, documents the early years of how the players of DUNGEONS & DRAGONS and other early role-playing games started theorizing about their game genre. William J. White's (2020) Tabletop RPG Design in Theory and Practice at the Forge analyzes the ways in which one of the most influential indie role-playing communities, The Forge, discussed game design and theory, leading to influences far beyond just role-playing game creation. Others works look at role-playing cultures. Björn-Ole Kamm's (2020) Role-Playing Games of Japan is about exactly what the title says: role-playing in Japan and how it sometimes very significantly differs from other countries. Nicholas J. Mizer's (2019) Tabletop Role-Playing Games and the Experience of Imagined Worlds provides a very nice counterpoint for it, describing actual play sessions of DUNGEONS & DRAGONS. And the newest edition in the nearly annual Nordic live-action role-playing convention books, What Do We Do When We Play? (Saitta et al., 2020) contains both research articles on role-playing, as well as numerous methods fro improving design and player skills. We can furthermore see similar topics between the lines in volumes such as Christopher A. Paul's (2019) Free-to-Play: Mobile Video Games, Bias, and Norms. As many luminaries in our field have observed, we also tend to take roles in games that are not role-playing games per se (e.g., Crookall et al., 1987; Klabbers, 2009). In MONOPOLY, we become temporary ultra-capitalists, and in a medical simulation, surgeons. Merijke Coenraad et al.'s (2020) Experiencing cybersecurity one game at a time: A systematic review of cybersecurity digital games introduces readers to cybersecurity games. Using a systematic sample of 181 located games, they show how cybersecurity professionals are depicted in various ways, and how there is still a need for a deeper, more professional depictions as well.

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