Identity formation in adolescent and emerging adult regular players of massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPG)

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Highlights:

• Regular players exhibited a globally troubled and still immature identity.

• Regular players showed higher levels of internet addiction than controls.

• Reconsideration of commitment and in-depth exploration are critical identity processes in players.

• Reconsideration of commitment had a positive effect on both dependent variables.

• In-depth exploration negatively affected only the probability to be a player.

摘要

•Regular players exhibited a globally troubled and still immature identity.•Regular players showed higher levels of internet addiction than controls.•Reconsideration of commitment and in-depth exploration are critical identity processes in players.•Reconsideration of commitment had a positive effect on both dependent variables.•In-depth exploration negatively affected only the probability to be a player.

论文关键词:Massively multiplayer online role-playing games,Identity,Internet addiction,Adolescence,Emerging adulthood

论文评审过程:Received 16 November 2016, Revised 18 March 2017, Accepted 20 March 2017, Available online 21 March 2017, Version of Record 25 March 2017.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2017.03.045