Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Online gaming as a double-edged sword: An Analysis of game community receptiveness, in-game vitality, and player well-being

  • Published:
Education and Information Technologies Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

Research has provided evidence that online gaming can both positively and negatively impact players’ physical and mental health. However, few research studies have examined how game addiction, game community, and vitality felt while playing can inform well-being. This study addressed this gap by focusing on game players’ vitality, a construct that addresses both mental and physical health. The research, conducted with 704 online players, specifically examined the association between players’ enduring vitality and Internet Gaming Disorder (IGD), game community, and state-related vitality (experienced during gaming). The survey instruments included 1) the Internet Gaming Disorder short scale, 2) the Game Community of Inquiry Scale (GCoIS), and 3) the Game Subjective Vitality Scale. Findings highlighted the role of game community receptiveness in informing players’ vitality. In addition, in-game vitality and enduring vitality were found to be intertwined. Implications for future research and practice are provided based on these findings.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

Data Availability

The dataset generated and analyzed during the current study is not publicly available due to privacy-confidentiality reasons but is available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

References

  • Adinolf, S., & Turkay, S. (2018). Toxic behaviors in Esports games: Player perceptions and coping strategies. In Proceedings of the 2018 annual symposium on computer-human interaction in play companion extended abstracts (pp. 365–372). ACM.

  • Akın, A. (2012). The relationships between Internet addiction, subjective vitality, and subjective happiness. Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking, 15(8), 404–410. https://doi.org/10.1089/cyber.2011.0609

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • American Psychiatric Association. (2018). Internet gaming. APA. Retrieved January 21, 2021, from https://www.psychiatry.org/patients-families/internet-gaming. Accessed 18 Jan 2022.

  • Arslan, G., Yildirim, M., & Aytac, M. (2022). Subjective vitality and loneliness explain how coronavirus anxiety increases rumination among college students. Death Studies, 46(5), 1042–1051. https://doi.org/10.1080/07481187.2020.1824204

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Barr, M., & Copeland-Stewart, A. (2022). Playing video games during the COVID-19 pandemic and effects on players’ well-being. Games and Culture, 17(1), 122–139.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Behnke, M., Chwiłkowska, P., & Kaczmarek, L. D. (2021). What makes male gamers angry, sad, amused, and enthusiastic while playing violent video games? Entertainment Computing, 37, 100397.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Beres, N. A., Frommel, J., Reid, E., Mandryk, R. I., & Klarkowski, M. (2021). Don’t you know that you’re toxic: Normalization of toxicity in online gaming. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘21) (pp. 1–16). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445157

  • Bergstrom, K. (2021). Anti-social social gaming: Community conflict in a Facebook game. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 38(1), 61–71. https://doi.org/10.1080/15295036.2020.1863441

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Bowman, N. D., Rieger, D., & Tammy Lin, J. H. (2022). Social video gaming and well-being. Current Opinion in Psychology, 45, 101316. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2022.101316

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Chan, G., Huo, Y., Kelly, S., Leung, J., Tisdale, C., & Gullo, M. (2022). The impact of eSports and online video gaming on lifestyle behaviors in youth: A systematic review. Computers in Human Behavior, 126, 106974. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2021.106974

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Chen, B., Van Assche, J., Vansteenkiste, M., Soenens, B., & Beyers, W. (2015). Does psychological need satisfaction matter when environmental or financial safety are at risk? Journal of Happiness Studies, 16(3), 745–766.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Cohen, J. (1988). Statistical power analysis for the behavioral sciences (2nd ed.). Lawrence Erlbaum.

    Google Scholar 

  • Colder Carras, M., Van Rooij, A. J., Spruijt-Metz, D., Kvedar, J., Griffiths, M. D., Carabas, Y., & Labrique, A. (2018). Commercial video games as therapy: A new research agenda to unlock the potential of a global pastime. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 8, 300. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2017.00300

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Cote, A. C. (2017). “I can defend myself”: Women’s strategies for coping with harassment while gaming online. Games and Culture, 12(2), 136–155. https://doi.org/10.1177/1555412015587603

    Article  MathSciNet  Google Scholar 

  • Deci, E. L., & Ryan, R. M. (2000). The “what” and “why” of goal pursuits: Human needs and the self-determination of behavior. Psychological Inquiry, 11, 227–268.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Deci, E. L., & Ryan, R. M. (2008). Self-determination theory: A macrotheory of human motivation, development, and health. Canadian Psychology/psychologie Canadienne, 49, 182–185.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • DeLisi, M., Vaughn, M. G., Gentile, D., Anderson, C., & Shook, J. J. (2013). Violent video games, delinquency, and youth violence: New evidence. Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice, 11(2), 132–142. https://doi.org/10.1177/1541204012460874

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Elias, G. S., Garfield, R., & Gutschera, R. K. (2012). Characteristics of games. The MIT Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Faas, T., Dombrowski, L., Young, A., & Miller, A. D. (2018). Watch me code: Programming mentorship communities on twitch. tv. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 2(CSCW), 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1145/3274319

  • Faul, F., Erdfelder, E., Buchner, A., & Lang, A.-G. (2009). Statistical power analyses using G*Power 3.1: Tests for correlation and regression analyses. Behavior Research Methods, 41, 1149–1160.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Formosa, J., Johnson, D., Türkay, S., & Mandryk, R. L. (2022). Need satisfaction, passion and wellbeing effects of videogame play prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Computers in Human Behavior, 131, 107232.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Gandhi, R., Cook, C. L., LaMastra, N., Uttarapong, J., & Wohn, D. Y. (2021). An exploration of mental health in live streaming gaming communities. Frontiers of Psychology, 12, 575653. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.575653

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Gandolfi, E. (2022). Playing is just the beginning: Social learning dynamics in game communities of inquiry. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 38(4), 1062–1076. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcal.12663

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Gandolfi, E., & Ferdig, R. E. (2021). Sharing dark sides on game service platforms: Disruptive behaviors and toxicity in DOTA2 through a platform lens. Convergence, 28(2), 468–487.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Gandolfi, E., & Gandolfi, S. (2021). Playing across the social zone: Animal Crossing, gaming communities and connectedness in a time of crisis. Academicus, 23, 41–51.

    Google Scholar 

  • Gandolfi, E., Soyturk, I., & Ferdig, R. E. (2021). Evaluating US gamers’ metacognitions about digital entertainment: Validation of metacognition about online gaming scale in the US context. Journal of Affective Disorders, 295, 954–959.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Gareth J., Witten, D., Hastie, T., & Tibshirani, R. (2021). ISLR: Data for an Introduction to Statistical Learning with Applications in R. R package version 1.4. ISLR. Retrieved April 12, 2022, from https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=ISLR. Accessed 5 May 2022.

  • Garrison, D. R., Anderson, T., & Archer, W. (2001). Critical thinking, cognitive presence, and computer conferencing in distance education. American Journal of Distance Education, 15(1), 7–23. https://doi.org/10.1080/08923640109527071

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Gentile, D. A., Swing, E. L., Anderson, C. A., Rinker, D., & Thomas, K. M. (2016). Differential neural recruitment during violent video game play in violent- and non-violent game players. Psychology of Popular Media Culture, 5(1), 39–51. https://doi.org/10.1037/ppm0000009

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Ghosh, A. (2021). Analyzing toxicity in online gaming communities. Turkish Journal of Computer and Mathematics Education, 12(10), 4448–4455.

    Google Scholar 

  • Gong, X., Zhang, K. Z., Cheung, C. M., Chen, C., & Lee, M. K. (2019). Alone or together? Exploring the role of desire for online group gaming in players’ social game addiction. Information & Management, 56(6), 103–139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.im.2019.01.001

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Gray, K. L. (2017). ‘They’re just too urban’: Black gamers streaming on Twitch. In J. Daniels, K. Gregory, & C. T. McMillan (Eds.), Digital sociologies (pp. 355–368). Policy Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1t89cfr.28

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  • Gunnell, K. E., Crocker, P. R., Mack, D. E., Wilson, P. M., & Zumbo, B. D. (2014). Goal contents, motivation, psychological need satisfaction, well-being and physical activity: A test of self-determination theory over 6 months. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 15(1), 19–29.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Hall, S. (1973). Encoding/decoding in the television discourse (working paper 7). CCCS stencilled occasional papers. Retrieved from http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/Documents/collegeartslaw/history/cccs/stencilled-occasionalpapers/1to8and11to24and38to48/SOP07.pdf. Accessed 13 Mar 2022.

  • Hayday, E. J., Collison, H., & Kohe, G. Z. (2020). Landscapes of tension, tribalism and toxicity: Configuring a spatial politics of esport communities. Leisure Studies, 40(2), 139–153. https://doi.org/10.1080/02614367.2020.1808049

  • Hilvert-Bruce, Z., & Neill, J. T. (2020). I’m just trolling: The role of normative beliefs in aggressive behaviour in online gaming. Computers in Human Behavior, 102, 303–311. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2019.09.003

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Hinkle, D. E., Wiersma, W., & Jurs, S. (2009). Applied statistics for behavioral sciences, international (5th ed.). Cengage Learning.

    Google Scholar 

  • Huang, Y., Jasin, S., & Manchanda, P. (2019). “Level up”: Leveraging skill and engagement to maximize player game-play in online video games. Information Systems Research, 30(3), 927–947.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Jagayat, A., & Choma, B. L. (2021). Cyber-aggression towards women: Measurement and psychological predictors in gaming communities. Computers in Human Behavior, 120, 106753. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2021.106753

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Jung, C. W. (2020a). The role of game genres and gamers’ communication networks in perceived learning. Palgrave Communication, 6(69), 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-020-0439-y

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Jung, C. W. (2020b). Role of gamers’ communicative ecology on game community involvement and self-identification of gamer. Computers in Human Behavior, 104, 106–164. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2019.10616

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Kosa, M., & Uysal, A. (2021). Need frustration in online video games. Behaviour and Information Technology, 41(11), 2415–2426.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Kou, Y. (2020). Toxic behaviors in team-based competitive gaming: the Case of League of Legends. In Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (CHI Play ‘20) (pp. 81–92). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3410404.3414243

  • Krittanawong, C., Virk, H. U. H., Katz, C. L., Kaplin, S., Wang, Z., Gonzalez-Heydrich, J., Storch, E. A., & Lavie, C. J. (2022). Association of social gaming with well-being (Escape COVID-19): A sentiment analysis. The American Journal of Medicine, 135(2), 254–257. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjmed.2021.10.010

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Laato, S., Islam, A. N., & Laine, T. H. (2021). Playing location-based games is associated with psychological well-being: An empirical study of Pokémon GO players. Behaviour & Information Technology, 41(9), 1888–1904.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Lee, J., Gug Cho, H., Moon, B., Kim, S., & Yu, D. (2019). Effects of prolonged continuous computer gaming on physical and ocular symptoms and binocular vision functions in young healthy individuals. PeerJ, 7, e7050. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7050

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Lehdonvirta, V., Oksanen, A., Räsänen, P., & Blant, G. (2021). Social media, web, and panel surveys: Using non-probability samples in social and policy research. Policy & Internet, 13(1), 134–155.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Lemercier-Dugarin, M., Romo, L., Tijus, C., & Zerhouni, O. (2021). “Who are the Cyka Blyat?” How empathy, impulsivity, and motivations to play predict aggressive behaviors in multiplayer online games. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 24(2), 63–69. https://doi.org/10.1089/cyber.2020.0041

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Li, Q. (2018). Using R for data analysis in social sciences: A research project-oriented approach. Oxford University Press.

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Martela, F., DeHaan, C. R., & Ryan, R. M. (2016). On enhancing and diminishing energy through psychological means: Research on vitality and depletion from self-determination theory. In E. R. Hirt, J. J. Clarkson, & L. Jia (Eds.), Self-regulation and ego control (pp. 67–85). Academic Press.

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  • Massanari, A. (2017). # Gamergate and The Fappening: How Reddit’s algorithm, governance, and culture support toxic technocultures. New Media and Society, 19(3), 329–346. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444815608807

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Maxwell, S. E., Delaney, H. D., & Kelley, K. (2018). Designing experiments and analyzing data: A model comparison perspective (3rd ed.). Routledge.

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Nardi, A. B. (2015). Virtuality. The Annual Review of Anthropology, 44, 15–31.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Neuendorf, K. A. (2018). Content analysis and thematic analysis. In P. Brough (Ed.), Advanced research methods for applied psychology (pp. 211–223). Routledge.

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  • NewZoo. (2022). Newzoo Global Games Market Report 2022 | Free Version. NewZoo. Retrieved December 2, 2022, from https://newzoo.com/insights/trend-reports/newzoo-global-games-market-report-2022-free-version. Accessed 3 Feb 2023.

  • Parmet, J. (2021). How do we promote passion for esports while standing against toxic behavior within esports communities? International Journal of Esports, 1(1). https://www.ijesports.org/article/67/html. Accessed 3 Apr 2022.

  • Paul, C. A. (2018). The toxic meritocracy of video games: Why gaming culture is the worst. University of Minnesota Press.

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Pelletier, V. H., Lessard, A., Piche, F., Tetreau, C., & Descarreaux, M. (2020). Video games and their associations with physical health: A scoping review. BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine, 0, e000832. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjsem-2020-000832

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Perry, R., Drachen, A., Kearney, A., Kriglstein, S., Nacke, L. E., Sifa, R., Wallner, G., & Johnson, D. (2018). Online-only friends, real-life friends or strangers? Differential associations with passion and social capital in video game play. Computers in Human Behavior, 79, 202–210. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2017.10.032

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Pontes, H. M., & Griffiths, M. D. (2015). Measuring DSM-5 internet gaming disorder: Development and validation of a short psychometric scale. Computers in Human Behavior, 45, 137–143. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2014.12.006

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Quwaider, M., Alabed, A., & Duwairi, R. (2019). The impact of video games on the players behaviors: A survey. Procedia Computer Science, 151, 575–582.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • RStudio Team. (2022). RStudio: Integrated Development Environment for R. RStudio. RStudio. Retrieved May 21, 2022, from http://www.rstudio.com/. Accessed 10 Jan 2023.

  • Ryan, R. M., & Deci, E. L. (2000). Self-determination theory and the facilitation of intrinsic motivation, social development, and well-being. The American Psychologist, 55(1), 68–78. https://doi.org/10.1037//0003-066x.55.1.68

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Ryan, R. M., & Deci, E. L. (2001). To be happy or to be self-fulfilled: A review of research on hedonic and eudaimonic well-being. Annual Review of Psychology, 52(1), 141–166. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.psych.52.1.141

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Ryan, R. M., & Frederick, C. (1997). On energy, personality, and health: Subjective vitality as a dynamic reflection of well-being. Journal of Personality, 65(3), 529–565.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Salama-Younes, M. (2011). Positive mental health, subjective vitality and satisfaction with life for French physical education students. World Journal of Sport Sciences, 4(2), 90–97.

    Google Scholar 

  • Saldana, J. (2016). The coding manual for qualitative researchers. Sage.

    Google Scholar 

  • Schell, J. (2008). The art of game design: A book of lenses. CRC Press.

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Scholes, L., Mills, K. A., & Wallace, E. (2021). Boys’ gaming identities and opportunities for learning. Learning, Media and Technology, 47(2), 163–178. https://doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2021.1936017

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Shoshani, A., Braverman, S., & Meirow, G. (2021). Video games and close relations: Attachment and empathy as predictors of children’s and adolescents’ video game social play and socio-emotional functioning. Computers in Human Behavior, 114, 106578. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2020.106578

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Sirola, A., Kaakinen, M., Savolainen, I., & Oksanen, A. (2019). Loneliness and online gambling-community participation of young social media users. Computers in Human Behavior, 95, 136–145. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2019.01.023

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Sousa, A., Ahmad, S. L., Hassan, T., Yuen, K., Douris, P., Zwibel, H., & DiFrancisco-Donoghue, J. (2020). Physiological and cognitive functions following a discrete session of competitive eSports gaming. Frontiers of Psychology, 11, 1030. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01030

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Soyturk, I., Gandolfi, E., & Ferdig, R. E. (2020). Development of a Game Communities of Inquiry Scale (GCoIS). International Journal of Gaming and Computer-Mediated Simulations, 12(3), 37–58. https://doi.org/10.4018/IJGCMS.2020070103

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Starcevic, V., Choi, T. Y., Kim, T. H., Yoo, S. K., Bae, S., Choi, B. S., & Han, D. H. (2020). Internet gaming disorder and gaming disorder in the context of seeking and not seeking treatment for video-gaming. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 129, 31–39.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Sylvester, T. (2013). Designing games: A guide to engineering experiences. O’Reilly Media.

    Google Scholar 

  • Tang, W. Y., Reer, F., & Quandt, T. (2019). Investigating sexual harassment in online video games: How personality and context factors are related to toxic sexual behaviors against fellow players. Aggressive Behavior, 46, 127–135. https://doi.org/10.1002/ab.21873

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Taylor, T. L. (2018). Watch Me Play: Twitch and the rise of game live streaming. Princeton University Press.

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Tras, Z. (2019). Internet addiction and loneliness as predictors of internet gaming disorder in adolescents. Educational Research and Reviews, 14(13), 465–473.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Türkay, S., Formosa, J., Adinolf, S., Cuthbert, R., & Altizer, R. (2020, April 25–30). See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil: How collegiate esports players define, experience and cope with toxicity. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1–13). ACM.

  • Wolff, G. H., & Shen, C. (2022). Social live-streaming use & well-being: Examining participation, financial commitment, social capital, and psychological well-being on twitch. tv. arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.13313.

  • World Health Organization. (2018). International Classification of Diseases 11th Revision. World Health Organization. Retrieved January 23, 2023, from https://icd.who.int/en. Accessed 5 Jul 2022.

  • Xie, H., Guan, S. S. A., & Boyns, D. (2018). Use of a student recreation center, self-determination needs satisfaction, and subjective vitality: A structural model. Recreational Sports Journal, 42(2), 116–129.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Yamaguchi, S. (2023). The relationship between playing video games on mobile devices and well-being in a sample of Japanese adolescents and adults. SAGE Open Medicine, 11, 20503121221147840.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Yang, C. C., & Liu, D. (2017). Motives matter: Motives for playing Pokémon go and implications for well-being. Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking, 20(1), 52–57. https://doi.org/10.1089/cyber.2016.0562

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Yannakakis, G. N., & Paiva, A. (2014). Emotion in games. In R. Calvo, S. D’Mello, J. Gratch, & A. Kappas (Eds.), Oxford Handbook on affective computing (pp. 459–471). Oxford University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Yin, K., Zi, Y., Zhuang, W., Gao, Y., Tong, Y., Song, L., & Liu, Y. (2020). Linking eSports to health risks and benefits: Current knowledge and future research needs. Journal of Sport and Health Science, 9, 485–488. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shs.2020.04.006

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Research Center for Educational Technology, Kent State University, 312 Moulton Hall, P.O. Box 5190, Kent, OH, 44242, USA

    Enrico Gandolfi

  2. Research Center for Educational Technology, Kent State University, 311 Moulton Hall, Kent, OH, 44242, USA

    Richard E. Ferdig

  3. Kent State University, 800 Hilltop Dr, Kent, OH, 44240, USA

    Jiahui Wang, Grace Morris, Amy Copus & Sk Rezwan Shihab

Authors
  1. Enrico Gandolfi
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Richard E. Ferdig
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Jiahui Wang
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. Grace Morris
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  5. Amy Copus
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  6. Sk Rezwan Shihab
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Enrico Gandolfi.

Ethics declarations

Declarations

The authors did not receive support from any organization for the submitted work.

The authors have no relevant financial or non-financial interests to disclose.

Compliance with Ethical Standards: authors’ university IRB approved and monitored the study reported in the article.

Additional information

Publisher's note

Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.

Appendices

Appendix 1

Table 1

Table 1 Sample main demographics
Full size table

Appendix 2

Table 2

Table 2 Coding categories per relationship
Full size table

Appendix 3

Table 3

Table 3 Summary of hierarchical regression analysis for variables predicting vitality mean
Full size table

Appendix 4

Table 4

Table 4 Summary of comments’ scores and categories per relationship
Full size table

Appendix 5

Table 5

Table 5 Examples of comments per group and category
Full size table

Rights and permissions

Springer Nature or its licensor (e.g. a society or other partner) holds exclusive rights to this article under a publishing agreement with the author(s) or other rightsholder(s); author self-archiving of the accepted manuscript version of this article is solely governed by the terms of such publishing agreement and applicable law.

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Gandolfi, E., Ferdig, R.E., Wang, J. et al. Online gaming as a double-edged sword: An Analysis of game community receptiveness, in-game vitality, and player well-being. Educ Inf Technol 29, 5349–5379 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10639-023-12011-0

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10639-023-12011-0

Keywords

Search

Navigation