Eight Hypotheses on Technology Use and Psychosocial Wellbeing: A Bicultural Phenomenological Study of Gaming during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Veli-Matti Karhulahti, Henri Nerg, Tanja Laitinen, Antti Päivinen, Yingrong Chen

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Article in Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Veli-Matti KarhulahtiFaculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies, University of Jyväskylä, PO Box 35, FI-40014 Jyväskylä, Finland.ORCID 0000-0003-3709-5341

Henri NergFaculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies, University of Jyväskylä, PO Box 35, FI-40014 Jyväskylä, Finland.

Tanja LaitinenFaculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies, University of Jyväskylä, PO Box 35, FI-40014 Jyväskylä, Finland.

Antti PäivinenFaculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies, University of Jyväskylä, PO Box 35, FI-40014 Jyväskylä, Finland.

Yingrong ChenFaculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies, University of Jyväskylä, PO Box 35, FI-40014 Jyväskylä, Finland.

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Abstract

In this nonconfirmatory qualitative study, we pursued a range of hypotheses regarding how gaming operates in the lives and psychosocial wellbeing of those who actively play videogames during a crisis, such as the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Informed by an explorative survey ( Supplementary Information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s12144-022-03586-x.

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Covid-19GamingQualitative methodsTechnology useWellbeing

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DOI10.1007/s12144-022-03586-x

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