Personality and video gaming: Comparing regular gamers, non-gamers, and gaming addicts and differentiating between game genres
We assessed video game addiction and favorite game genre in N=2891. Non-gamers and gaming addicts had the highest neuroticism scores. Gaming addicts were also characterized by low extraversion and conscientiousness. Participants who preferred action games had high extraversion and low neuroticism. Non-gamers showed high conscientiousness.
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