The Study of Relationship Among Online Game Players: Motivations, Self-Concept, and Life Adaptation

• In Event: Using Learning Technologies to Personalize Learning and Activate Students

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to validate a systematic instrument to measure adolescent online players’ motivations for playing online games (MPOG) and scrutinize how the interplay of differential motivations impacts young gamers’ self-concept and life adaptation. Confirmatory factor analysis determined that a hierarchical model with a two-factor structure of Social-engaging and Social-disengaging MPOG has better factorial validity than one-factor and two-factor models. The study found that individuals who play online games with Social-engaging MPOG are more likely to have a healthy self-concept and life adaptation, whereas players who have Social-disengaging MPOG have poorer self-concepts and experience a significant, negative, and indirect effect on life adaptation through their self-concept.

Authors

• Shu Ching Yang, National Sun Yat-Sen University

• Chiao Ling Huang, East China Normal University