Online gaming involvement and its positive and negative consequences: A cognitive anthropological “cultural consensus” approach to psychiatric measurement and assessment

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Highlights:

• Study employs ethnographic and mixed qualitative-quantitative methods.

• Culturally sensitive online gaming involvement and ± consequences scales.

• Scales are sensitive to actual gamer experiences and frames of meaning.

• Critique of problematic gaming studies based on drug or substance use models.

• Suggest the need for caution in employing current “addictive” gaming measures.

摘要

•Study employs ethnographic and mixed qualitative-quantitative methods.•Culturally sensitive online gaming involvement and ± consequences scales.•Scales are sensitive to actual gamer experiences and frames of meaning.•Critique of problematic gaming studies based on drug or substance use models.•Suggest the need for caution in employing current “addictive” gaming measures.

论文关键词:Internet gaming disorder,Internet addiction,Engaged play,Anthropology,Cultural consensus analysis

论文评审过程:Received 24 February 2016, Revised 11 July 2016, Accepted 16 September 2016, Available online 5 October 2016, Version of Record 5 October 2016.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2016.09.025