Escaping in digital games: The relationship between playing motives and addictive tendencies in males

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1415-1420

  Kneer, Julia ^a   Glock, Sabine ^b  

^a Erasmus University Rotterdam   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

Author keywords

Explicit playing motives; Implicit and explicit measurements; Implicit playing motives; Problematic playing behaviour

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL GAMES; EXPLICIT PLAYING MOTIVES; IMPLICIT PLAYING MOTIVES; PROBLEMATIC PLAYING BEHAVIOUR; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS; SOCIAL SETTINGS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

COMPUTER GAMES;

EID: 84874878177     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2013.01.030     Document Type: Article

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