When Games Influence Words: Gaming Addiction among College Students Increases Verbal Aggression through Risk-Biased Drifting in Decision-Making

被引:2
作者
Teng, Huina [1 ]
Zhu, Lixin [1 ]
Zhang, Xuanyu [2 ]
Qiu, Boyu [1 ]
机构
[1] Guangzhou Med Univ, Sch Hlth Management, Guangzhou 510180, Peoples R China
[2] Guangzhou Med Univ, Sch Mental Hlth, Guangzhou 510180, Peoples R China
关键词
gaming addition; inhibitory control; risk preference; aggression; hierarchical drift-diffusion model; EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONS; YOUNG-ADULTS; VIDEO GAMES; INTERNET; METAANALYSIS; ASSOCIATION; ADOLESCENTS; DEPRESSION; DISORDER; CHILDREN;
D O I
10.3390/bs14080699
中图分类号
B84 [心理学];
学科分类号
04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
Increased aggression due to gaming addiction is a widespread and highly publicized problem. The underlying processes by which verbal aggression, a more harmful and persistent subcategory of aggression, is affected by gaming addiction may differ from other types of aggression. In this study, data came from 252 randomly recruited current university students (50.79% male, mean age 19.60 years, SD: 1.44 years, range 17 to 29 years). Participants reported gaming addiction and different types of aggression through questionnaires. In addition, two important explanatory processes, inhibitory control, and risk preference, were measured through behavioral experiments. A Bayesian hierarchical drift-diffusion model was employed to interpret the data from the risk preference task. In contrast to previous work, the study found that inhibitory control did not significantly correlate with either gaming addiction or any form of aggression However, the drift rate, a measure of decision-making inclination under risk, partially mediates the relationship between gaming addiction and verbal aggression (but not other forms of aggression). The findings illuminate risk preference under adverse conditions as a key predictor of verbal aggression, offering avenues for early intervention and suggesting game design modifications to mitigate verbal aggression by adjusting reward mechanisms.
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