Personality and video gaming: Comparing regular gamers, non-gamers, and gaming addicts and differentiating between game genres

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Highlights：

• We assessed video game addiction and favorite game genre in N = 2891.

• Non-gamers and gaming addicts had the highest neuroticism scores.

• Gaming addicts were also characterized by low extraversion and conscientiousness.

• Participants who preferred action games had high extraversion and low neuroticism.

• Non-gamers showed high conscientiousness.

摘要

•We assessed video game addiction and favorite game genre in N = 2891.•Non-gamers and gaming addicts had the highest neuroticism scores.•Gaming addicts were also characterized by low extraversion and conscientiousness.•Participants who preferred action games had high extraversion and low neuroticism.•Non-gamers showed high conscientiousness.

论文关键词：Video game behavior,Big Five,Game genres,Non-gamers,Personality

论文评审过程：Received 1 April 2015, Revised 14 August 2015, Accepted 24 September 2015, Available online 5 November 2015, Version of Record 5 November 2015.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2015.09.041