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From healthy play to gaming disorder: Psychological profiles from emotional regulation and motivational factors

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dc.contributor.authorCastro, Cátia Martins e
dc.contributor.authorNeto, David Dias
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-21T15:47:21Z
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dc.date.issued2025
dc.description.abstractBackground and Aims: The widespread popularity of video games eflects their appeal to meet fundamental needs. This study aims to investigate the psychological factors of gaming use, identifying profiles ranging from healthy to gaming disorder. Methods: In this ross-sectional study, 5,222 participants were surveyed. This ternational sample included adolescents and adults (16–69 years, M 5 25.6 years, SD 5 6.44), 48.66% men (n 5 2,541; M 5 26.4, SD 5 7.03), 42.32% women (n 5 2,210; M 5 25.1, SD 5 5.78), and 9.02% non-binary individuals (n 5 471; M 5 23.3, SD 5 5.23), spanning from casual gamers to esports rofessional players. Latent Profile Analysis (LPA) was employed to dentify distinct psychological profiles. The profile indicators included emotional regulation and motivations for playing video games. The profile correlates analysed included gaming disorder symptoms, time spent gaming and sociodemographics. Results: The LPA revealed four profiles labelled as avoidant (20.16%), engaged (38.95%), relational (26.01%), and dysregulated (15.78%). Results suggested that the dysregulated profile had the most emotional regulation difficulties, a low level of general motivation, and less interest in recreational aming, presenting the highest risk for gaming disorder. Discussion and Conclusions: This study’s findings present the first profiles incompassing key detailed psychological factors affecting gamers’ behaviour across all game genres, considering three genders. These profiles can aid researchers and clinicians in developing further research on targeted prevention and intervention programs tailored to each profile’s characteristics to promote healthy gaming habits and mitigate the risks and harm associated with gaming disorder. pt_PT
dc.description.sponsorshipFundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia - FCTpt_PT
dc.description.versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersionpt_PT
dc.identifier.citationCastro, C. M. & Neto, D. D. (2025). From healthy play to gaming disorder: Psychological profiles from emotional regulation and motivational factors. Journal of Behavioral Addiction, 7, 1-13pt_PT
dc.identifier.doi10.1556/2006.2024.00077pt_PT
dc.identifier.issn20625871
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.12/10249
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.publisherAkademiai Kiadopt_PT
dc.relationFCT/UIDB/ 05299/2020pt_PT
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/pt_PT
dc.subjectVideo gamespt_PT
dc.subjectProfilespt_PT
dc.subjectGaming disorderpt_PT
dc.subjectLatent profile analysispt_PT
dc.subjectMotivationpt_PT
dc.subjectEmotional regulationpt_PT
dc.titleFrom healthy play to gaming disorder: Psychological profiles from emotional regulation and motivational factorspt_PT
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oaire.citation.endPage13pt_PT
oaire.citation.issue7pt_PT
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oaire.citation.titleJournal of Behavioral Addictionspt_PT
person.familyNamede Oliveira Martins e Castro
person.familyNameDias Neto
person.givenNameCátia Raquel
person.givenNameDavid Manuel
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