ArticleFrontiers in psychology2019
Video Games and Stress: How Stress Appraisals and Game Content Affect Cardiovascular and Emotion Outcomes.
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- Health Consequences of Intensive E-Gaming: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Pooled it
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- Examining the applicability of virtual battle space for stress management training in military personnel-A validation study.Stress and health : journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress · 2024Article
- Two Sides of the Same Virtual Coin: Investigating Psychosocial Effects of Video Game Play, including Stress Relief Motivations as a Gateway to Problematic Video Game Usage.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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- Heart Rate Variability during Online Video Game Playing in Habitual Gamers: Effects of Internet Addiction Scale, Ranking Score and Gaming Performance.Brain sciences · 2023Article
- Physiological Signal Analysis and Stress Classification from VR Simulations Using Decision Tree Methods.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Neurobiological Link between Stress and Gaming: A Scoping Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Gaming Preferences and Personality among School Students.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Large Estimate Variations in Assessed Energy Expenditure and Physical Activity Levels during Active Virtual Reality Gaming: A Short Report.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Commentary: Video games and stress: how stress appraisals and game content affect cardiovascular and emotion outcomes.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Assessment of the human response to acute mental stress-An overview and a multimodal study.PloS one · 2023Article
- The Association between Video Game Time and Adolescent Mental Health: Evidence from Rural China.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- A Multi-Analysis of Children and Adolescents' Video Gaming Addiction with the AHP and TOPSIS Methods.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
Although previous studies have found that video games induce stress, studies have not typically measured all salient indicators of stress responses including stress appraisals, cardiovascular indicators, and emotion outcomes. The current study used the Biopsychosocial Model of Challenge and Threat (Blascovich and Tomaka, 1996) to determine if video games induce a cardiovascular stress response by comparing the effects of threat and challenge appraisals across two types of video games that have shown different cardiovascular outcomes. Participants received challenge or threat appraisal instructions, and played a fighting game (
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