Do aggressive people play violent computer games in a more aggressive way? Individual difference and idiosyncratic game-playing experience.

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ABSTRACT This study investigates whether individual difference influences idiosyncratic experience of game playing. In particular, we examine the relationship between the game player's physical-aggressive personality and the aggressiveness of the player's game playing in violence-oriented video games. Screen video stream of 40 individual participants' game playing was captured and content analyzed. Participants' physical aggression was measured before the game play. The results suggest that people with more physical-aggressive personality engage in a more aggressive style of playing, after controlling the differences of gender and previous gaming experience. Implications of these findings and direction for future studies are discussed.

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Author information

Author/s: Peng, Wei (W); Liu, Ming (M); Mou, Yi (Y);

Affiliation: Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies and Media, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA. pengwei@msu.edu

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article

Journal: Cyberpsychology & behavior : the impact of the Internet, multimedia and virtual reality on behavior and society (Cyberpsychol Behav), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2008-Apr; vol 11 (issue 2) : pp 157-61

Dates: Created 2008/04/21; Completed 2008/07/02;

PMID: 18422407, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)

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Adult
Aggression - psychology
Computers
Female
Humans

Humans
Male
Personality
Video Games - statistics & numerical data
Violence - psychology

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