Gender role orientation and gaming behavior revisited: examining mediated and moderated effects

Wilhelm, Claudia

doi:10.1080/1369118x.2016.1271902

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“…Beavis et al (2015) note that boys in their sample were more likely than girls to rate ‘competing’ as a ‘very important’ aspect of game play, perhaps explaining this difference (p. 29). However, grouping interest in game elements by gender is contentious and potentially obscures more meaningful individual differences (Hayes, 2008; Wilhelm, 2016).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Children and Minecraft: A survey of children’s digital play

Mavoa

Carter

Gibbs

2017

New Media & Society

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Digital games such as Minecraft currently hold a position of significance in the media diets of many children. However, little is known explicitly about just who plays, with whom and how. This article presents the quantitative results of a survey of 753 parents of children aged 3–12 years about their child’s engagement with Minecraft. Our results establish Minecraft as the dominant digital game title played by this age group, particularly on tablet devices. We provide evidence of a marked early gendering of children’s Minecraft play and engagement with meta-game material. This research gives particular impetus to efforts aimed at ensuring gender equity in digital game–related cultural spaces inhabited by children. It also highlights the importance of collecting game-specific descriptive information, rather than limiting studies to aggregate measures of ‘screen time’.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Children and Minecraft: A survey of children’s digital play

Mavoa

Carter

Gibbs

2017

New Media & Society

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“…Past research has found gender differences regarding gaming motivations. One study showed that masculinity was positively associated with challenge and competition, while femininity was not found to be linked with any gaming motivations [30]. Another study suggested that male players were more motivated by achievement and women players by social factors [31], while yet another found women players were more likely to be motivated by escapism, immersion, and relationships, while men were likely motivated by achievement or manipulation [32].…”

Section: B Gaming Motivation and Gendermentioning

confidence: 99%

Gender, Gaming Motives, and Genre: Comparing Singaporean, German, and American Players

Ratan

Chen

Degrove³

et al. 2022

IEEE Trans. Games

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This study examines gender and country differences with respect to a range of gaming motivations (e.g., social, performance, habit) and game genre choices (e.g., action, sports, casual). Surveys were conducted with 634 university students from Singapore, Germany and the US. Overall, the findings suggest that many game motivations and genre choices differed by player gender, country, and the interaction between gender and country in some cases. Further, game motivations and genre choices were related to each other, though sometimes in a negative direction. Finally, differences in gaming motivations, genre choices, and gender, but not the country of residence, were all found to relate to differences in future intention to play. Although these topics have been studied in isolation in previous research, the present study contributes unique insights about the intersections of gender, cultural background, gaming motivations, and genre choices.

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“…In a study examining the differences in genre preferences between genders, Bonanno and Kommers, 2005 found that males tended to list strategy, sports, shooters, role playing and car racing, whereas females tended to list puzzle, adventure, fighting, managerial and car racing as their favourite genres. Wilhelm, 2018 conclude in her study that male players behave more competitively and show a stronger preference for action-oriented and role-playing genre than female players. Study by Lucas & Sherry, 2004 that more exhaustively examined the differences between the sexes in genre preferences found statistically significant differences between males and females, with males more strongly preferring fighter, shooter, sports, racing, fantasy/role playing, action/adventure, and strategy games, and females preferring card/dice games, classic board games, quiz/trivia, puzzle, and arcade games.…”

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Gender and Game Genres Differences in Playing Online Games

Hassan¹,

Mailok²,

Hashim³

2019

JICTIE

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Online games are currently popular among teenagers as a way to entertain their time and having fun. Some claimed that by playing games could enhance learning ability, improved focus and attention, treat depression, less anti-social and many more. However, playing games could also become an addiction where some might involve with physical and health problems. This paper investigated gender-based students’ perceptions on playing games with their daily life. The perceptions study was developed based on ten items that related to students’ daily task. This study is also to identify the most popular game genres and genre-gender based preference from twelve game genres listed in this study. The data were collected among 116 students from Diploma in game design and development course offered by Faculty of Arts, Computing & Creative Industry at Sultan Idris Education University (UPSI), Malaysia. The results showed that majority of the students perceived themselves as love to play games however percentage of male students are higher than female students. The mean analyses also showed the highest score from ten (10) tasks is ‘meet new friends’ and this also the highest mean for both genders. The result also showed that ‘Adventure’ game genre is the most popular game genre among both gender while ‘music/dance’ genre is the least popular genre for male but the third popular game genre for female.

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Gender role orientation and gaming behavior revisited: examining mediated and moderated effects

Cited by 25 publications

References 38 publications

Children and Minecraft: A survey of children’s digital play

Children and Minecraft: A survey of children’s digital play

Gender, Gaming Motives, and Genre: Comparing Singaporean, German, and American Players

Gender and Game Genres Differences in Playing Online Games

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