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- Title
The effect of competitive context in nonviolent video games on aggression: The mediating role of frustration and the moderating role of gender.
- Authors
Sun, Jiayi; Liao, Jinqian; Du, Xiaoli; Liu, Yanling
- Abstract
Previous studies have focused on whether there is a relationship between violent content in video games and aggression, but less attention has been given to game context, despite the popularity of multiplayer games. Therefore, the current study investigated the short-term effects of competitive game context on aggression as well as the mediating role of frustration and the moderating role of gender. Seventy-six participants played either competitive or solo game play modes for 15 min and then completed a measure of frustration. Next, participants completed a lexical decision task to measure their aggressive cognitions, a competitive reaction time task and a hot sauce paradigm to measure their aggressive behaviors. The results showed that participants in the competitive game context responded significantly faster to aggressive words than nonaggressive words, set longer noise punishment, and selected more chili powder than in the solo game context. Frustration mediated the relationship between game context and aggressive behavior (hot sauce scores), while gender was insignificant as a moderator. These results suggest that the competitive game context can influence aggression. Furthermore, the frustration-aggression hypothesis was supported, which proposes that competition can lead to frustration and in turn to aggressive behavior.
- Subjects
VIDEO games; AGGRESSION (Psychology); FRUSTRATION; MULTIPLAYER games; CHILI powder; SPEECH perception
- Publication
Current Psychology, 2024, Vol 43, Issue 13, p11514
- ISSN
1046-1310
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12144-023-05223-7