BETWEEN

-AEN3133-VIDEO
GAMING AND
PSYCHOLOGICAL
FUNCTIONING

NURUL IZZAH BINTI KHALIB

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INTRODU 02
DISCUSS METHODOLOGY

CTION ION RESPONDENT

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FINDIN
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CONCLU 04
REFERE
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INTRODU
CTION
“The Association Between Video Gaming and
Psychological Functioning” – by Juliane M. von der
Heiden, Beate Braun, Kai W. Müller and Boris Egloff

To shed light on the important relationship between video

games and psychological functioning against the player

According to Esposito (2005), he defined that "a game

which we play thanks to an audio-visual apparatus and
which can be based on a story"

Video games are a popular leisure activity nowadays

whether among children, teenagers and adults.
 PURPO
SE
 Focus on the association of diverse video gaming
habits with gamers' psychological functioning
 Distraction-motivated gaming was associated
with higher symptom ratings, lower self-esteem
and stronger negative emotions
 Relationship between preferred game genre
and functional psychology
 Can prevent the players who spend hours in
front of a computer screen every day from:

1. Developing and practicing functional coping

strategies

2. Finding friends and support in the social

environment

3. Showing proper school achievement, factors that

are potentially harmful to the person.
METHODO
LOGY
Quantitative:

• Questionnaire method
• Distributed links online (online forums and also popular
online game sites)
• Uses a Likert scale which is between 1 to 5 and it also
depends on the question
 RESPONDEN
TS
The study was conducted on
people living in Germany

A total of 2891 respondents were

involved in answering the questions
(2421 men and 470 were women)

As many as 95% which is a total of 2734 people

confirmed to use video gaming and most of
them consist of 2377 men and 357 women and
they are between 13-65 years old

Respondents have to answer the questions

found in both sections (Video Gaming and
Psychological Functioning)
FINDING/
RESULTS  Potentially Problematic Video Game
Use and Psychological Functioning

 Reasons for Playing Video Games and

Psychological Functioning

 Video Game Genre and Psychological

Functioning

 Predicting Potentially Problematic

Video Game Use by Psychological
Functioning Variables
 CONCLUS
ION
In conclusion, the study conducted on "The Association
Between Video Gaming and Psychological Functioning"
can help in increasing knowledge about games where this
study has revealed the specific difference between video
gaming and the measurement of psychological
functioning. Players who play video games have made a
choice about their game genre which helps them in
deepening their understanding of between video gaming
and psychological health.
REFERE
NCES
1. Juliane M. von der Heiden, Beate Braun, Kai W. Müller and
Boris Egloff. 26 July 2019. The Association Between Video
Gaming and Psychological Functioning. Retrieved from
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01731/f
ull

2. Nicolas Esposito. 2005. A Short and Simple Definition of

What a Videogame Is. Retrieved from
https://www.utc.fr/~nesposit/publications/esposito2005definitio
n.pdf
THAN
KS!