The Role of Personality Factors Influencing Consumer Video Game Engagement in Young Adults: A Study on Generic Games

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the impact of personality dimensions on consumer videogame engagement. We distributed the study questionnaire to gamers aged 16-19 years and managed to get threehundred-and-eighty valid respondents who provided data in the form of a self-report using HEXACO-100 items and consumer videogame engagement constructs. WarpPLS 7.0 version was employed and the impact of personality dimensions on consumer videogame engagement was assessed using Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM). Our findings indicate that personality traits such as consciousness and extraversion impact consumer videogame engagement, whereas agreeableness, emotionality, openness-to-experience, and honesty-humility do not. Our study explores the utility of the HEXACO-100 item to assess the personality factors that can predict consumer videogame engagement. The paper discusses the results and offers the practical and theoretical implications of our findings.

Approaching Collaborative Flow in Collaborative Gaming, a Survey Study

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“…Video games are one of the most popular forms of leisure activities, especially for youth (as well as other age groups) across the world [ 1 ]. The video gaming industry has come a long way since first video game, Atari, which was launched in 1972 [ 2 ].…”

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