Gaming Disorder: A systematic review exploring the user-avatar relationship in videogames

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Highlights：

• Research into Gaming Disorder (GD) and the user-avatar relationship is steadily increasing.

• GD is associated with greater levels of avatar identification compared to healthy gamers.

• Gamers with GD design their avatar to resemble their vision of their ideal self.

• Gamers with GD compensate for perceived physical-world inadequacies.

• GD gamer's image of their ideal self can extend beyond what may be achievable in the physical world.

摘要

•Research into Gaming Disorder (GD) and the user-avatar relationship is steadily increasing.•GD is associated with greater levels of avatar identification compared to healthy gamers.•Gamers with GD design their avatar to resemble their vision of their ideal self.•Gamers with GD compensate for perceived physical-world inadequacies.•GD gamer's image of their ideal self can extend beyond what may be achievable in the physical world.

论文关键词：Gaming disorder,Avatar,Videogame,Self-concept,Identification

论文评审过程：Received 30 May 2021, Revised 27 November 2021, Accepted 1 December 2021, Available online 4 December 2021, Version of Record 8 December 2021.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2021.107124