What shapes a parasocial relationship in RVGs? The effects of avatar images, avatar identification, and romantic jealousy among potential, casual, and core players

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Highlights：

• Investigating the relationship between identification and parasocial relationship in romantic video games.

• Romantic jealousy has a negative mediation effect between identification and parasocial relationship in existing players.

• Avatar images promote game experience for players unfamiliar with romantic stories.

• Avtar images lead to jealousy and undermine parasocial relationship for players familiar with romantic stories.

摘要

•Investigating the relationship between identification and parasocial relationship in romantic video games.•Romantic jealousy has a negative mediation effect between identification and parasocial relationship in existing players.•Avatar images promote game experience for players unfamiliar with romantic stories.•Avtar images lead to jealousy and undermine parasocial relationship for players familiar with romantic stories.

论文关键词：Avatar identification,Romantic video games,Parasocial relationship,Romantic jealousy,Avatar image

论文评审过程：Received 8 May 2022, Revised 23 August 2022, Accepted 28 September 2022, Available online 1 October 2022, Version of Record 12 October 2022.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2022.107504