The Role of Personality Factors Influencing Consumer Video Game Engagement in Young Adults: A Study on Generic Games

The Role of Personality Factors Influencing Consumer Video Game Engagement in Young Adults: A Study on Generic Games

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the impact of personality dimensions on consumer videogame engagement. We distributed the study questionnaire to gamers aged 16-19 years and managed to get three-hundred-and-eighty valid respondents who provided data in the form of a self-report using HEXACO-100 items and consumer videogame engagement constructs. WarpPLS 7.0 version was employed and the impact of personality dimensions on consumer videogame engagement was assessed using Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM). Our findings indicate that personality traits such as consciousness and extraversion impact consumer videogame engagement, whereas agreeableness, emotionality, openness-to-experience, and honesty-humility do not. Our study explores the utility of the HEXACO-100 item to assess the personality factors that can predict consumer videogame engagement. The article discusses the results and offers the practical and theoretical implications of our findings.

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Authors
  • Abbasi, Amir Zaib
  • Shah, Muhammad Umair
  • Rehman, Umair
  • Hlavacs, Helmut
  • Ting, Ding Hooi
  • Nisar, Saima
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Category
Journal Paper
Divisions
Education, Didactics and Entertainment Computing
Subjects
Informatik in Beziehung zu Mensch und Gesellschaft
Multimedia
Journal or Publication Title
IEEE Access
ISSN
2169-3536
Publisher
IEEE
Place of Publication
New Jersey
Page Range
pp. 17392-17410
Volume
9
Date
20 January 2021
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