Understanding the lives of problem gamers: The meaning, purpose, and influences of video gaming

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Highlights：

• Gaming is meaningful and purposeful activity for problem gamers.

• Video gaming offered both positive and negative experiences in gamers' lives.

• Negative experiences mainly resulted from using video games as a coping mechanism.

• Individual and external influences push and pull on the amount of gaming.

• The push and pull influences on gaming can occur in real-life or virtually.

摘要

•Gaming is meaningful and purposeful activity for problem gamers.•Video gaming offered both positive and negative experiences in gamers' lives.•Negative experiences mainly resulted from using video games as a coping mechanism.•Individual and external influences push and pull on the amount of gaming.•The push and pull influences on gaming can occur in real-life or virtually.

论文关键词：Video games,Computer games,Social ecology,Addictive behavior,Gaming disorder,Qualitative research

论文评审过程：Received 28 June 2018, Revised 1 March 2019, Accepted 18 March 2019, Available online 21 March 2019, Version of Record 9 April 2019.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2019.03.023