The relationship between computer-game preference, gender, and mental-rotation ability

Quaiser-Pohl, Claudia; Geiser, Christian; Lehmann, Wolfgang

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2005.07.015

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“…This study used three types of players: non-player, Action and simulation game players, and logic and skill training game play. So, the results found that the more than 81 % of male prefer the "Action and simulation player" while female more than 82 % prefer the "logic and skill training game play" (Quaiser-Pohl, Geiser & Lehmann, 2006). Therefore, it indicated that males and females prefer different types of games.…”

Section: Gender Issues In Gamingmentioning

confidence: 98%

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Middle School Students’ Digital Game Experiences in the City of Makkah in Saudi Arabia

Almoslamani¹,

Alqahtani²

2016

IJAEDU

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The purpose of this quantitative study is to investigate middle school students" experiences with gaming in Makkah City in Saudi Arabia. This study described the current condition of video game usage and compared that depth of usage to current academic grade point average (GPA). Also, it showed the difference between gender, and students" age and described the types of video games and elements that attract students to play video games. There were 201 middle schools students from Makkah who participated in this study. The study found there was a significant relationship between hours spent playing video games and students" GPAs. They also showed a significant difference between gender in hours spent playing video games and that there was no significant statistical difference between the middle schools students" ages in hours spent playing video games. Additionally, male students were perceived to have higher positive attitudes toward video games than females. Finally, the results suggested that there are three underlying factors (competition, discover, and knowledge) that attract students to play video games.

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Section: Gender Issues In Gamingmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…In a study conducted at a German secondary school, researchers examined game preferences related to a mental rotation test for performance and gender difference (Quaiser-Pohl, Geiser & Lehmann, 2006). This study used three types of players: non-player, Action and simulation game players, and logic and skill training game play.…”

Section: Gender Issues In Gamingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Middle School Students’ Digital Game Experiences in the City of Makkah in Saudi Arabia

Almoslamani¹,

Alqahtani²

2016

IJAEDU

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“…For reasons that are not well understood, results for nonviolent games such as Tetris are considerably weaker (e.g., Quaiser-Pohl, Geiser, & Lehmann, 2006;Sims & Mayer, 2002). A recent meta-analysis of studies examining the effects of violent video games on visuospatial cognition (Ferguson, 2007b) found that, after controlling for publication bias effects, video games still had a moderate effect on visuospatial cognition (r ϭ .36) where as no effect was found in studies of aggressive behavior (r ϭ .04).…”

Section: The Positive Effects Of Violent Video Gamesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Blazing Angels or Resident Evil? Can Violent Video Games be a Force for Good?

Ferguson

2010

Review of General Psychology

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Violent video games have been a source of controversy in the United States and elsewhere for several decades. Considerable concern has been raised in the public and scientific communities about the alleged deleterious effects of violent games. These concerns may coincide with periodic moral panics about media's influence, particularly on youth. This paper argues that the negative effects of violent games have been exaggerated by some elements of the scientific community, fitting with past cycles of media-focused moral panics. By contrast, potential positive effects of violent video game play have been ignored in the debate on violent games. The current paper considers research in several areas, including aggression, but also the nascent research fields of visuospatial cognition, social networking, and use as educational tools. It is argued that the debate on video game violence should be broadened to include both potential negative and positive effects.

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“…6 The transferable nature of these abilities may also be due to the flexibility in the kinds of training video games provide, as increasing the need for switching between task demands and the requirements for adjustments in the approach or skills used has been suggested to encourage a greater level of transfer to novel situations. 7 This has been well supported by the literature, which has demonstrated that action video game players as well as nonplayers trained using action video games have a greater attentional capacity, as measured by both flanker compatibility 2,8,9 and enumeration paradigms, 10 greater mental rotation, 11,12 executive control 2,13-16 (normally measured by task switching performance, for which participants are required to alternate quickly between two conflicting tasks), and visual short-term memory (VSTM), 13 to name but a few. However, these discoveries have not gone undisputed, and several studies have reported there to be no significant differences between VGPs and NVGPs.…”

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confidence: 69%

“…Moreover, research into mental rotation ability has been mixed in deciding whether males or females (or indeed both) stand to benefit from video game use. 11,12 It is therefore clear that more research is sorely needed.…”

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confidence: 99%

Video Game Use and Cognitive Performance: Does It Vary with the Presence of Problematic Video Game Use?

Collins

Freeman

2014

Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking

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Action video game players have been found to outperform nonplayers on a variety of cognitive tasks. However, several failures to replicate these video game player advantages have indicated that this relationship may not be straightforward. Moreover, despite the discovery that problematic video game players do not appear to demonstrate the same superior performance as nonproblematic video game players in relation to multiple object tracking paradigms, this has not been investigated for other tasks. Consequently, this study compared gamers and nongamers in task switching ability, visual short-term memory, mental rotation, enumeration, and flanker interference, as well as investigated the influence of self-reported problematic video game use. A total of 66 participants completed the experiment, 26 of whom played action video games, including 20 problematic players. The results revealed no significant effect of playing action video games, nor any influence of problematic video game play. This indicates that the previously reported cognitive advantages in video game players may be restricted to specific task features or samples. Furthermore, problematic video game play may not have a detrimental effect on cognitive performance, although this is difficult to ascertain considering the lack of video game player advantage. More research is therefore sorely needed.

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The relationship between computer-game preference, gender, and mental-rotation ability

Cited by 197 publications

References 40 publications

Middle School Students’ Digital Game Experiences in the City of Makkah in Saudi Arabia

Middle School Students’ Digital Game Experiences in the City of Makkah in Saudi Arabia

Blazing Angels or Resident Evil? Can Violent Video Games be a Force for Good?

Video Game Use and Cognitive Performance: Does It Vary with the Presence of Problematic Video Game Use?

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