"I can be happy even when i lose the game": The influence of chronic regulatory focus and primed self-construal on exergamers' mood

Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 467-471

  Jin, Seung A Annie ^a  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECREATION; SELF CONCEPT;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXERCISE; FEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTIVATION; PLAY AND PLAYTHINGS; SELF CONCEPT; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VIDEO GAMES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955856298     PISSN: 21522715     EISSN: 21522723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/cyber.2009.0268     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. White M, Lehmann H, Trent M. Disco dance video gamebased interventional study on childhood obesity. Journal of Adolescent Health 2007; 40:S32.
2. Trafimow D, Triandis HC, Goto SG. Some tests of the distinction between the private self and the collective self. Journal of Personality & Social Psychology 1991; 60:649-655
3. Higgins ET. Beyond pleasure and pain. American Psychologist 1997; 52:1280-1300
4. Howard ES, Gardner WL, Thompson L. The role of the selfconcept and the social context in determining the behavior of power holders: Self-construal in intergroup versus dyadic dispute resolution negotiations. Journal of Personality & Social Psychology 2007; 93:614-631
5. Gardner WL, Gabriel S, Lee AY. "I" value freedom, but "we" value relationships: Self-construal priming mimics cultural differences in judgment. Psychological Science 1999; 4:321-326
6. Markus HR, Kitayama S. Culture and the self: Implications for cognition, emotion, and motivation. Psychological Review 1991; 98:224-253
7. Lee AY, Aaker JL, Gardner, WL. The pleasures and pains of distinct self-construals: The role of interdependence in regulatory focus. Journal of Personality & Social Psychology 2000; 78: 1122-1134
8. Zhang Y,MittalV. The attractiveness of enriched and impoverished options: Culture, self-construal, and regulatory focus. Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin 2007; 33:588-598
9. Spiegel S, Grant-Pillow H, Higgins ET. How regulatory fit enhances motivational strength during goal pursuit. European Journal of Social Psychology 2004; 34:39-54.
10. Shah JY, Higgins ET, Friedman RS. Performance incentives and means: How regulatory focus influences goal attainment. Journal of Personality & Social Psychology 1998; 74: 285-293
11. Sinclair L, Fehr B. Voice versus loyalty: Self-construals and responses to dissatisfaction in romantic relationships. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 2005; 41:298-304.
12. Ybarra O, Trafimow D. How priming the private self or collective self affects the relative weights of attitudes and subjective norms. Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin 1998; 24: 362-370
13. Higgins ET, Friedman RS, Harlow RE, Idson LC, Ayduk ON, Taylor A. Achievement orientations from subjective histories of success: Promotion pride versus prevention pride. European Journal of Social Psychology 2001; 31:3-23. (Pubitemid 33381158)
14. Mehrabian A, Russell JA. (1974) An approach to environmental psychology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
15. Lee KM, Park N, Jin S-A. (2006) Narrative and interactivity in computer games. In Vorderer P, Bryant J, eds. Playing video games: Motives, responses, and consequences. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, pp. 259-274
16. Schneider EF, Lang A, Shin M, Bradley SD. Death with a story: How story impacts emotional, motivational, and physiological responses to first-person shooter video games. Human Communication Research 2004; 30: 361-375