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A Positive Psychology Approach to Modeling Adolescent Behavior in Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games

To adolescents, online game provides a rich playground for developing competence in leadership, coordination, teamwork, and cooperation. Adopting the perspective of positive psychology and social cognitive theory, this research investigates how factors such as personal and social factors may impact adolescents' learning outcomes and subjective will-being. The results show that game efficacy, adolescents' game attitudes, and social influences are important factors that influence adolescents' online game behavior. Moreover, playing online games may improve adolescents' psychological affects and learning, which in turn enhance players' subjective well-being. These results provide a new perspective to game researchers, teachers and parents and can help game manufactures and government in designing games and making policies.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0627107-142008
Date27 June 2007
CreatorsHuang, Li-Chun
ContributorsFu-ren Lin, Tzu-Ming Lin, Ing-Long Wu, Feng-Yang Kuo, Hsiu-Hui Lin
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageCholon
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0627107-142008
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