The role of personality on disordered gaming and game genre preferences in adolescence: gender differences and person-environment transactions.

The role of personality on disordered gaming and game genre preferences in adolescence: gender differences and person-environment transactions. Adicciones. 2020 Feb 06;0(0):1370 Authors: López-Fernández FJ, Mezquita L, Griffiths MD, Ortet G, Ibáñez MI Abstract Playing video games is one of the world's most popular leisure activi- ties, especially for teenagers. The main aim of the present study was to examine additive and moderation effects of gender and personality to explain individual differences in problematic gaming and video game genre preferences in adolescence. 776 Spanish high school students (mean age = 14.29 years, SD = 1.59, 50.64% girls) completed the ques- tionnaires of the Five-Factor Model of personality, frequency of video gaming, disordered use, and the video games they mostly played.Gender differences were observed for gaming behaviors: boys played more and presented much more disordered gaming than girls. Boys preferred competitive genres; for example, action-shooters, sport, fight and strategy games. Girls preferred nonviolent and ocasional game genres; for example, social simulation, and brain and skill games. Gender moderated the association between personality and disor- dered gaming: disordered gaming was associated with low agreeable- ness and low conscientiousness in boys, and with low extraversion and low conscientiousness in girls. Low consciousnness moderated the association between gaming frequency ...
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