Underlying factors of social capital acquisition in the context of online-gaming: Comparing World of Warcraft and Counter-Strike

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Highlights：

• We constructed and evaluated a model of social capital acquisition in online-gaming.

• Behaviors in clans and guilds predict self-disclosure and communication frequency.

• Self-disclosure and communication frequency predict social capital acquisition.

• The model fits the data well for samples stemming from games of different genres.

摘要

•We constructed and evaluated a model of social capital acquisition in online-gaming.•Behaviors in clans and guilds predict self-disclosure and communication frequency.•Self-disclosure and communication frequency predict social capital acquisition.•The model fits the data well for samples stemming from games of different genres.

论文关键词：Social capital,Self-disclosure,Online-games,Clans,Guilds

论文评审过程：Available online 19 April 2014.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2014.03.057