A Longitudinal Study of Gaming Patterns during the First Nine Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic

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dc.contributor.advisorKeough, Matthew
dc.contributor.authorRitchie, Emma Victoria
dc.date.accessioned2022-12-14T16:27:33Z
dc.date.available2022-12-14T16:27:33Z
dc.date.copyright2022-06-30
dc.date.issued2022-12-14
dc.date.updated2022-12-14T16:27:33Z
dc.degree.disciplinePsychology (Functional Area: Clinical Psychology)
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameMA - Master of Arts
dc.description.abstractThe current longitudinal study explored the gaming behaviours of Canadians during the COVID-19 pandemic. A total of 332 people (Mean age = 33.79, 60.8% men) who played video games responded to four waves of surveys (spaced 3 months apart) on the crowdsourcing platform Prolific from March 2020 to February 2021. The main outcome of interest was time spent gaming, measured in hours spent gaming in the past 30 days prior to each assessment wave. Latent growth curve modelling showed that participants reported high initial levels of gaming, but progressively declined in gaming activity across the subsequent waves. Several sociodemographic, COVID-19-specific, and gaming-related measures were significant predictors of increased gaming at the outset of the pandemic, but these factors were not related to longer-term declines in gaming during the pandemic. The findings of this study indicate that gaming may have been an adaptive, rather than maladaptive, behaviour during the pandemic.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/40665
dc.languageen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectClinical psychology
dc.subjectPsychology
dc.subject.keywordsInternet gaming disorder
dc.subject.keywordsCOVID-19
dc.subject.keywordsLongitudinal
dc.subject.keywordsVideo gaming
dc.titleA Longitudinal Study of Gaming Patterns during the First Nine Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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