An exploratory study of the association between online gaming addiction and enjoyment motivations for playing massively multiplayer online role-playing games

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 50, Issue , 2015, Pages 221-230

  Hussain, Zaheer ^a   Williams, Glenn A ^b   Griffiths, Mark D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DERBY   (United Kingdom)

^b NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Addiction; games; Latent Class Analysis; Massively multiplayer online role playing; Motivations; Online gaming; Risk

Indexed keywords

MOTIVATION; ONLINE SYSTEMS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISKS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ADDICTION; GAMES; LATENT CLASS ANALYSIS; ON-LINE GAMING; ROLE PLAYING;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84928159993     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2015.03.075     Document Type: Article

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