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- Title
El gamer portugués: caracterización y hábito deportivo (perspectiva de género).
- Authors
Segui-Urbaneja, Jordi; Nóbrega Mendoça, Christopher; Coelho Teixeira, Mário
- Abstract
With the aim of characterizing the sociodemographic and gamer profile, and sporting habits of Portuguese gamers from a gender perspective, a questionnaire (N=413) was carried out at the video game event held in Braga, Portugal. The results show that the gamer is predominantly male (92.1%), student (76.7%) and unemployed (76.9%), although men are younger (less than 20 years old, 78.5%) compared to women (over 20 years old, 69.7%); men have lower education (secondary school or less, 61.9%) compared to women (graduate or higher, 54.6%); and, men receive more compensation for playing (50%) compared to women (6.1%). Regarding the gamer profile, both understand videogames as entertainment (83.8%) and value it as personal training (87.1%), identify themselves as amateur gamers (86.4%), spend less than 10h/week playing games (55.1%) and continue to to streamers less than 2h/day. The reason they started playing (entertainment 52.9% of men and competition 36.4% of women) and game specialization (strategy/action 38.7% of men and retro 57.6% of women) ) differs by gender. Considering sports practice habits, women practice less (42.4%) and men practice more days a week; and recognize benefits in their subsequent performance in video games (66.4%); women do not perform specific training for gamers (66.7%). It is concluded that these data show the differences in profiles according to gender and the need to develop strategies to promote physical activity, as well as to deploy actions to better adapt to the needs of each gender.
- Subjects
VIDEO games; PRACTICE (Sports); PERSONAL training; PHYSICAL activity; SPORTS administration; HABIT
- Publication
Retos: Nuevas Perspectivas de Educación Física, Deporte y Recreación, 2023, Vol 47, p352
- ISSN
1579-1726
- Publication type
Article