跳至主要内容

The Video Game from the Perspective of Positive Psychology

Read full paper at:
http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=49043#.VDYfRVfHRK0

In recent years, video games have become one of the primary means of people’s daily entertainment. With the diversification of video gaming platform and the enrichment of the contents, the impact of video games on people’s mental health and behavior is increasing, and thus becomes a hot research area of psychology. Traditional psychology has done a lot of research on the negative impact of video games, but the advent of positive psychology offers a new research perspective of the video game. This paper presents a review of the research focusing on the video games on people’s emotions, positive personal trait quality positive personal trait, relationships from the perspective of positive psychology, and offers suggestion for future video games design.
Cite this paper
Liang, S. , Li, H. and Yang, X. (2014) The Video Game from the Perspective of Positive Psychology. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 2, 57-60. doi: 10.4236/jss.2014.28009. 
 

[1] Seligman, E.P. and Csikszentmihalyi, M. (2000) Positive Psychology: An Introduction. American Psychologist, 55, 5- 14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0003-066X.55.1.5
[2] Time Magazine’s Cover Story in the Special Issue on “The Science of Happiness”, 2005 (PDF). Retrieved 2011-02-07.
[3] Anderson, C.A. and Dill, K.E. (2000). Video Games and Aggressive Thoughts, Feelings, and Behavior in the Laboratory and in Life. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 78, 772-790. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.78.4.772
[4] Jason, C.A., McLaughlin, A.C., Trujillo, A., Whitlock, L.A., La-Porte, L. and Gandy, M. (2013) Successful Aging through Digital Games: Socioemotional Differences between Older Adult Gamers and Non-Gamers. Computers in Human Behavior, 29, 1302-1306. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2013.01.014
[5] Zhao, Y. L., He, Y. and Zheng Y. (2011) Negative Effects of Video Games and Disputes. Advances in Psychological Science, 19, 1788-1797
[6] Tian, W. (2009) The Educational Potential of Online Games from a Psychological Perspective. Journey of Chongqing University Science and Technology, 2, 214-215.
[7] Jackson, L.A. (2011) Information Technology Use and Creativity: Findings from the Children and Technology Project. Computers in Human Behavior, 28, 370-376. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2011.10.006
[8] Wang, D. and Liu, D.H. (2012) Review of Correlative Research of Young People’s Network Game. Advertising Panorama. 12, 53-61.
[9] Staffan, B. (2008) Games, Gamers, and Gaming: Understanding Game Research. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Entertainment and Media in the Ubiquitous Era.
[10] Shang, J.J. and Zhuang, S.Y. (2008) Value Research of the Game’s Applications in Education. Distance Education Journal, 6, 63-68.
[11] Greenfield, P.M. (1984) Mind and Media: The Effects of Tele-vision. Computers and Video Games. Harvard University Press.
[12] Williamson, B. and Facer, K. (2003) More than “Just a Game”: The Implications for Schools of Children’s Computer Games Communities. Education, Communication and Information, 4, 253-268.
[13] Csikszentmihalyi, M. (1991) Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience. Harper Perennial, New York.
[14] Webster, J., Trevino, L.K. and Ryan, L. (1993) The Dimensionality and Correlates of Flow in Human-Computer Interaction. Computers in Human Behavior, 9, 411-426. Cite Uses Deprecated Parameters (Help). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0747-5632(93)90032-N
[15] Cao, X.M. and Liu, X.P. (2008) Positive Psychology from Learned Helplessness to Learned Optimism: Seligman’s Contribution to the Development of Psychology. Advances in Psychological Science, 16, 562-566. eww141009lx
标签：

评论

发表评论

此博客中的热门博文

Does Immigration Promote the Investment of the Monopolistic Firm?

In the present paper, we examine the effect of increasing uncertainty of immigrants’ growth on the optimal timing of investment of a firm that has a monopolistic power over the labor market. It is revealed that when the uncertainty of immigrants’ growth is more than a threshold level, increasing uncertainty of immigrants’ growth accelerates the optimal timing of firms’ investment and enhances the economic growth, even if the uncertainty of immigrants’ growth is formulated by the geometric Brownian motion, which is in sharp contrast to the standard result that an increase in the uncertainty postpones the optimal timing. With an increase in the immigrants over the past ten years, workforces in the host countries have been growing significantly to the extent that the immigrants represent 70% of the increase in the workforce in Europe, and 47% in the United States as OECD indicates. In the present paper, we attempted to investigate the effect of increased uncertainty caused by the growi...
发表评论
阅读全文

Education Policy Implementation: A Mechanism for Enhancing Primary Education Development in Zanzibar

Education is one of the fundamental rights of individuals; therefore, the government of a country needs to develop and strengthen educational policy and quality as well as to ensure that everyone has equal access to basic education. The improvement of access and quality of education in the world is becoming as an essential factor in development, whereas the basic education (primary school), is acknowledged as a foundation of the higher educational development for every country. To fulfill this goal, governments introduce several policies and procedures; however, it requires some reforms and participation from the politician, policymakers, and other stakeholders to re-examine educational policy so that it can lead to multiplication and betterment of the reforms. Educational reforms actually focus on accountability. A positive educational development and reform is very challenging and needs more effort and strategy on how to use and utilize the resources effectively as such it can achie...
发表评论
阅读全文