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The benefits of playing video games.
Abstract
Video games are a ubiquitous part of almost all children's and adolescents' lives, with 97% playing for at least one hour per day in the United States. The vast majority of research by psychologists on the effects of "gaming" has been on its negative impact: the potential harm related to violence, addiction, and depression. We recognize the value of that research; however, we argue that a more balanced perspective is needed, one that considers not only the possible negative effects but also the benefits of playing these games. Considering these potential benefits is important, in part, because the nature of these games has changed dramatically in the last decade, becoming increasingly complex, diverse, realistic, and social in nature. A small but significant body of research has begun to emerge, mostly in the last five years, documenting these benefits. In this article, we summarize the research on the positive effects of playing video games, focusing on four main domains: cognitive, motivational, emotional, and social. By integrating insights from developmental, positive, and social psychology, as well as media psychology, we propose some candidate mechanisms by which playing video games may foster real-world psychosocial benefits. Our aim is to provide strong enough evidence and a theoretical rationale to inspire new programs of research on the largely unexplored mental health benefits of gaming. Finally, we end with a call to intervention researchers and practitioners to test the positive uses of video games, and we suggest several promising directions for doing so.
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TL;DR
This review argues that psychological research on video games has been overwhelmingly focused on harms (aggression, addiction, depression) and that a balanced perspective should also consider documented cognitive, motivational, emotional, and social benefits. The authors synthesize existing evidence across these four domains and call for intervention researchers to test video games as mental health tools.
Key findings
- Cognitive: training studies show shooter/"action" game players have faster and more accurate attention allocation, higher spatial resolution, and enhanced mental rotation; a meta-analysis (Uttal et al., 2013) found these spatial-skill gains comparable to formal high school/university courses and that they transfer to non-game spatial tasks. Effects are robust for shooter games but not for puzzle or role-playing games.
- Motivational: games provide immediate, concrete feedback and dynamically calibrated difficulty, which the authors propose trains an incremental theory of intelligence and persistence; Ventura et al. (2013) found extent of game use predicted how long participants persisted on difficult anagrams outside gaming.
- Emotional: puzzle games (e.g., *Angry Birds*, *Bejeweled II*) have been shown to improve mood, promote relaxation, and ward off anxiety; the authors propose games reward adaptive emotion-regulation strategies such as reappraisal, though they call this speculative.
- Social: over 70% of gamers play with a friend (ESA, 2012); prosocial games predict prosocial behavior (Gentile et al., 2009), and cooperative (vs. competitive) play of violent games is linked to increased helping and reduced aggressive cognitions. In health applications, the *Re-Mission* RCT across 34 medical centers found significantly greater treatment adherence, self-efficacy, and cancer knowledge in the intervention group, and the game has been distributed to over 200,000 patients; the *SPARX* CBT-based game RCT was as effective as therapist-administered CBT for depression.
- Harms acknowledged: 3% of Dutch and about 8% of U.S. youth who play games show pathological addiction symptoms; two meta-analyses on violent games and aggression reached conflicting conclusions.
Methods
Narrative review/integrative synthesis, not an original empirical study; no new data are collected. The authors summarize existing correlational, longitudinal, experimental, training, fMRI, and meta-analytic work across four domains (cognitive, motivational, emotional, social) and integrate developmental, positive, social, and media psychology theory to propose candidate mechanisms. They also review "serious games" in health and education (e.g., *Re-Mission*, *SPARX*) and outline future research and intervention directions.
Limitations
Stated by the authors: very few well-designed studies examine both positive and negative effects of the same games; most studies rely on survey/self-report rather than objective, psychophysiological, or neural measures; the field focuses almost exclusively on short-term effects with few longitudinal or diary studies; and most work examines single-player games despite over 70% of play being social. The authors explicitly note that claims about motivational, emotional, and social benefits are more speculative than cognitive ones, and that causal direction (selection vs. influence) remains unresolved. Evident from the text: as a narrative review it presents no systematic search or effect-size synthesis of its own, and several proposed mechanisms (e.g., reappraisal training, flow transferring to real-world outcomes) are described as untested hypotheses.
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“It is important to stress that enhanced cognitive performance is not documented for all video game genres.”
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“Indeed, problem solving seems central to all genres of video games (including those with violent content).”
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“New evidence is emerging that playing any kind of video game, regardless of whether or not it is violent, enhances children's creative capacities.”
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“Further, this recent meta-analysis showed that spatial skills can be trained with video games in a relatively brief period, that these training benefits last over an extended period of time, and crucially, that these skills transfer to other spatial tasks outside the video game context.”
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“Moreover, it is virtually impossible to choose an appropriate control condition wherein all aspects of a game (e.g., visual stimulation, arousal induction, gameplay) are kept constant across conditions and only one cognitive challenge is manipulated (e.g., navigating three-dimensional space efficiently vs. inhibiting prepotent responses).”
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“For example, among a sample of almost 500 12-year-old students, video game playing was positively associated with creativity (Jackson et al., 2012).”
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“Preliminary research has also demonstrated that these cognitive advantages manifest in measurable changes in neural processing and efficiency.”
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“A small but significant body of research has begun to emerge, mostly in the last five years, documenting these benefits.”
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“However, this study's cross-sectional design made it unclear whether playing video games develops creative skills or creative people prefer video games (or both).”
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“Further, these experiences may have the potential to enhance mental health and well-being in children and adolescents.”
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“Beyond social cognition, developmentalists have emphasized that play constitutes an emotionally significant context through which themes of power and dominance, aggression, nurturance, anxiety, pain, loss, growth, and joy can be enacted productively (e.g., Gottman, 1986).”
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- Not checked yetcites Gottman, 1986
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“We propose that, in addition to several unique factors, the same emotional themes identified in children's play experiences in general (e.g., dominance, nurturance, anxiety, and growth) are also explored in video games, allowing for important cognitive, emotional, and social competencies to be acquired.”
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“Only two studies have explicitly tested the relation between playing video games and problem-solving abilities; in both, problemsolving was defined in the reflective sense (e.g., taking time to gather information, evaluate various options, formulate a plan, and consider changing strategies and/or goals before proceeding further).”
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“Moreover, this latter study showed an indirect mediation effect such that playing strategic games predicted higher selfreported problem-solving skills, which, in turn, predicted better academic grades.”
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- Not checked yetcites Adachi & Willoughby, 2013
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“Similarly, Piaget (1962) theorized that make-believe play provides children opportunities to reproduce real-life conflicts, to work out ideal resolutions for their own pleasure, and to ameliorate negative feelings.”
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- Not checked yetcites Piaget, 1962
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“For example, a recent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study found that the mechanisms that control attention allocation (e.g., the fronto-parietal network) were less active during a challenging pattern-detection task in regular gamers than in nongamers, leading the researchers to suggest that shooter game players allocate their attentional resources more efficiently and filter out Irr”
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“Erikson (1977) proposed that play contexts allow children to experiment with social experiences and simulate alternative emotional consequences, which can then bring about feelings of resolution outside the play context.”
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- Not checked yetcites Erikson, 1977
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“She demonstrates that experiencing positive emotions may help broaden the number of behaviors one perceives as both possible and motivating and may build social relationships that provide support for goal pursuit and coping with failure.”
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- Not checked yetcites Fredrickson, 2001
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“Further, Fredrickson and colleagues propose that positive emotions help undo the detrimental and de-motivating results of negative emotions.”
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“It has further been suggested that some of the most intense positive emotional experiences are triggered in the context of playing video games (McGonigal, 2011).”
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- Not checked yetcites McGonigal, 2011
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“In summary, specific types of video games seem to enhance a suite of cognitive functions, some of which appear to generalize to real-world contexts.”
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“Thus, game playing may promote the ability to flexibly and efficiently reappraise emotional experiences, teaching players the benefits of dealing with frustration and anxiety in adaptive ways.”
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“The structure had eluded researchers for over 10 years; however, the nonlinear, cooperative, and creative problem-solving techniques used by these gamers seemed to be precisely the skills needed to finally solve this elusive problem.”
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“This motivational style, in turn, may generalize to school and work contexts.”
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“In these virtual social communities, decisions need to be made on the fly about whom to trust, whom to reject, and how to most effectively lead a group.”
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“Further, although correlational studies suggest that individuals consciously turn to these games to regulate their emotions (Olson, 2010), it may simply be that positive moods and game playing co-occur, and players report retrospectively that experiencing positive emotions was a conscious motivation that preceded play.”
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- Not checked yetcites Olson, 2010
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“Importantly, the type of contexts that most often pull for effective emotionregulation strategies-such as reappraisal-are social in nature.”
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“For example, studies suggest that playing puzzle video games-games with minimal interfaces, short-term commitments, and a high degree of accessibility (e.g., Angry Birds , Bejewled II )-can improve players' moods, promote relaxation, and ward off anxiety (Russoniello et al., 2009).”
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- Not checked yetcites Russoniello et al., 2009
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“Immediate and concrete feedback in video games (e.g., through points, coins, dead ends in puzzles) serves to reward continual effort and keep players within what Vygotsky (1978, p. 86) coined the 'zone of proximal development.'”
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- Not checked yetcites Vygotsky, 1978
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“Games do not elicit only positive emotions; video games also trigger a range of negative ones, including frustration, anger, anxiety, and sadness.”
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“Moreover, contrary to what we might expect, these experiences of failure do not lead to anger, frustration, or sadness, although players often do feel these negative emotions intermittently.”
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- Not checked yetcites Salminen & Ravaja, 2008
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“When faced with failure, players are highly motivated to return to the task of winning, and they are 'relentlessly optimistic' about reaching their goals (McGonigal, 2011).”
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- Not checked yetcites McGonigal, 2011
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“Flow or transportation is another positive emotional experience described by gamers, during which they are immersed in an intrinsically rewarding activity that elicits a high sense of control while simultaneously evoking a loss of self-consciousness (Sherry, 2004).”
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- Not checked yetcites Sherry, 2004
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“two large-scale survey studies have found that 3% of Dutch (van Rooij, Schoenmakers, Vermulst, van den Eijnden, & van de Mheen, 2011) and about 8% of U.S. youth (Gentile, 2009) who play video games exhibit pathological symptoms of addiction”
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- Not checked yetcites van Rooij, Schoenmakers, Vermulst, van den Eijnden, & van de Mheen, 2011
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“the suitability ratings ascribed to games by the entertainment industry (e.g., E for 'everyone,' M for 'not appropriate for children under the age of 18') are based on little to no scientific evidence regarding potential harms or benefits.”
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“Games that are fundamentally social and rely on varied social partners also provide a large amount of variability in game experiences, depending on who the player encounters each time she or he enters the gaming world.”
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“Our expertise is in the area of developmental psychopathology, where we contend video games can have a particularly large impact.”
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“most popularly played games today are complex and change dynamically (see the top half of Figure 1), which means that players' in-game behaviors change how the game itself progresses, feeding back to, and constraining, how the player continues to adapt to these changes in subsequently updated game contexts (Klimmt, Vorderer, & Ritterfeld, 2007).”
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- Not checked yetcites Klimmt, Vorderer, & Ritterfeld, 2007
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“there is one point that both sides are advocating with which we fervently agree: Video games hold immense potential to teach new forms of thought and behavior.”
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“Finally, the cost-effectiveness of delivering mental health interventions is often a barrier to treatment delivery.”
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“Many children and families cannot afford individual or group therapy, and schools worldwide are facing cuts in funding that have significantly decreased the number of programs that can be offered as part of the curriculum.”
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“there are very few, if any, well-designed published studies that examine both the positive and negative effects of the same games and the conditions under which these effects are most likely manifested, whether they are violent in nature or otherwise.”
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“But these are mostly de-contextualized exercises that rarely involve the authentic emotional experiences during which most conflicts arise.”
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“Both traditional and video games are fundamentally voluntary in nature”
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“By dichotomizing video games into either 'good' or 'bad,' 'violent' or 'prosocial,' psychologists are largely (with the exception of media psychologists) overlooking the complex new playground of contemporary video games and the varied landscape of virtual interactions taking place in those games.”
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“The second shortcoming is that medical practitioners, teachers, and researchers are not game designers, and as a result, they often develop products that miss the most essential mechanism of engagement in games-the fun.”
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“Another limitation of past approaches is the almost exclusive focus on the short-term impact of games; very few longitudinal studies have been conducted in this area.”
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“This gap between knowledge and behavior has long been recognized as a problem in the field, and thus many interventions incorporate role-playing, problem-solving exercises and homework assignments (e.g., P. C. Kendall, 2011 ).”
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- Not checked yetcites P. C. Kendall, 2011
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“The most important reason is that very few of the games developed to improve health and learning outcomes are ever scientifically evaluated.”
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“Given that video games have permeated almost all households, across almost all countries, it is striking how little attention has been paid to using this medium for purposes that go beyond entertainment and beyond demonstrated benefits for education and health care.”
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“about 8% of U.S. youth (Gentile, 2009) who play video games exhibit pathological symptoms of addiction”
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- Not checked yetcites Gentile, 2009
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“We propose that video games can uniquely and significantly address these limitations and, in turn, improve intervention effects across a broad spectrum of disorders.”
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“Adherence to treatment protocol, self-efficacy, and cancer-related knowledge were all significantly greater in the intervention group.”
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- Not checked yetcites Kato et al., 2008
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“We argue that this learning potential has been left largely untapped in the mental health arena, and addressing this gap holds a great deal of promise for a radical new approach to intervention.”
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“a meta-analysis concluded that games can make important advances in the educational reform necessary to deal with the learning challenges of the next century (Vogel et al., 2006).”
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- Not checked yetcites Vogel et al., 2006
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“Moreover, no studies have assessed the daily patterns of gaming and the function that these patterns of use may serve.”
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“Moreover, it is likely that games are associated with less stigma than conventional therapy, addressing another barrier.”
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“perhaps the most important lesson from these conflicting meta-analyses is that the picture is much more complex than popular press headlines suggest (Ferguson, 2013).”
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- Not checked yetcites Ferguson, 2013
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“Video games share many similarities with traditional games and likely provide benefits similar to those provided by play more generally.”
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“Remarkably, there are very few video games that have been developed with these aims in mind.”
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“Video games are socially interactive in a way never before afforded.”
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“we have become particularly inspired by the potential that these games hold for interventions that promote well-being, including the prevention and treatment of mental health problems in youth.”
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“The large amount of time invested in playing video games may also mean that they provide qualitatively different experiences than conventional games.”
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“players immerse themselves in pretend worlds that are safe contexts in which negative emotions can be worked out”
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“These differences in space and time likely hold wholly new benefits and risks that have yet to be conceptualized.”
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“games allow a sense of control with just enough unpredictability to feel deep satisfaction and intense pride when formidable goals are finally reached”
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“Increasingly, players are gaming online, with friends, family, and complete strangers, crossing vast geographical distances and blurring not only cultural boundaries but also age and generation gaps, socioeconomic differences, and language barriers.”
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“they can include competitive and cooperative objectives”
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Most children and adolescents are enthralled with video games.
“Given how enthralled most children and adolescents are with video games, we believe that a multidisciplinary team of psychologists, clinicians, and game designers can work together to develop genuinely innovative approaches to mental health interventions.”
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The most essential mechanism of engagement in games is fun.
“they often develop products that miss the most essential mechanism of engagement in games-the fun.”
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“Mobile health (mHealth) can play an important role in accurate recognition of symptoms and timely treatment [9-11].”
From A Smartphone Serious Game for Adolescents (Grow It! App): Development, Feasibility, and Acceptance Study (2022) · cites this paper as [10]
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“Such games offer an environment in which attractive learning tasks are presented in a way that addresses the difficulties that children with ADHD often have in engaging with “boring” and repetitive training tasks [36-38].”
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“video games are a ubiquitous part of our current society”
From Behavioral trainings and manipulations to reduce delay discounting: A systematic review (2019) · cites this paper as Granic, Lobel, & Engels, 2014
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“video games can promote long-term training by incorporating repetitive actions and encouraging repetitive gameplay without evoking boredom”
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“For the current and upcoming generation of youth who play video games and socialize online daily, the norm is digital experiences that are exquisitely designed to adjust to the pace, content preferences, and skill levels of their users [49].”
From Use of the Principles of Design Thinking to Address Limitations of Digital Mental Health Interventions for Youth: Viewpoint (2019) · cites this paper as [49]
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“They also provide a compelling virtual playground to not only gain knowledge, but also practice skills.”
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“Finally, applied games can overcome the stigma associated with traditional and self-help interventions.”
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“In short, well-designed applied games are intrinsically motivating, offer a strong sense of agency, and are simply fun.”
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Audiogames: Accessibility and Inclusion in Digital Entertainment
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Psychometric Assessment of the Motives for Online Gaming Questionnaire Among Iranian Gamers
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“A number of studies document children's and adolescents' preference for video games and the emotional, social and intellectual con-notations of such activities in their lives (Granic, Lobel, & Engels, 2014; Olson, 2010).”
Game Mechanics Used for Achieving Better Results of Massive Online Courses
Lisitsyna, L. S., Pershin, A. A., & Kazakov, M. A. (2015) · Smart innovation, systems and technologies · doi:10.1007/978-3-319-19875-0_17 · Cited by 11
Bacon Brains : Video Games for Teaching the Science of Addiction
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Khan, S., & Peña, J. (2017) · Computers in Human Behavior · doi:10.1016/j.chb.2017.02.024 · Cited by 14
Use of video games to enhance construction management education
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Helping Parents Make Sense of Video Game Addiction
Nielsen, R. K. L., & Kardefelt‐Winther, D. (2018) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-319-95495-0_5 · Cited by 11
Mills, D. J. (2019) · Leisure Studies · doi:10.1080/02614367.2019.1633682 · Cited by 11
Effectiveness of a Brief Group Intervention Program for Young Adults with Gaming-Related Problems
Männikkö, N., Mustonen, T., Tanner, N., Vähänikkilä, H., & Kääriäinen, M. (2022) · International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction · doi:10.1007/s11469-021-00559-2 · Cited by 10
Prevalence of video gaming disorder in Saudi Arabia: a school-based national study
Alfaleh, A., Alzaher, A. A., Alkattan, A., Alabdulkareem, K. I., & Ibrahim, M. H. (2024) · Journal of the Egyptian Public Health Association · doi:10.1186/s42506-024-00165-9 · Cited by 9
“Our results regarding game categories played by students with GD are in line with Granic et al. study, which showed that stimulatory, sports, online, and multiple-mode games are commonly played by adolescents with GD and may predict violence among them [3].”
BackgroundResultYou Are Tilted!: Leveraging Tabletop Gaming to Manage Tilt and Strengthen Team Dynamics in Esports
Cho, Y., Newman, M., Pitt, C. R., Yip, J. C., & Lee, J. H. (2024) · Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction · doi:10.1145/3677116 · Cited by 10
“Granic et al. [19] addressed psychological safety as a key advantage of the game in its virtual setting, offering players the opportunity to engage repeatedly without the fear of real-world consequences.”
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Parental Behaviors and Video Game Addiction in Adolescents: A Systematic Review
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Joshi, D. R., Chapai, K. P. S., Upadhayaya, P. R., Adhikari, K. P., & Belbase, S. (2025) · Cogent Education · doi:10.1080/2331186x.2025.2488161 · Cited by 23
“Video games now offer more immersive, engaging educational experiences (Hanus & Fox, 2015) and positively impact cognitive, motivational, emotional, and social development (Granic et al., 2014).”
Using Frankenstein-themed science activities for science ethics education: An exploratory study
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“Leveraging the interactive and immersive characteristics of digital games, various scholars have advocated the idea that they should be used as educational tools to motivate students and facilitate their problem-solving skills (e.g., Gee, 2003, 2017; Granic et al., 2014; Squire, 2008).”
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Kaye, L. K. (2021) · Entertainment Computing · doi:10.1016/j.entcom.2021.100420 · Cited by 10
Playing videogames is associated with reduced awareness of bodily sensations
Swinkels, L. M. J., Veling, H., & van Schie, H. T. (2021) · Computers in Human Behavior · doi:10.1016/j.chb.2021.106953 · Cited by 9
Pandemic rhythms: Adults’ gaming in Finland during the spring 2020 COVID-19 restrictions
Meriläinen, M. (2022) · Convergence The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies · doi:10.1177/13548565221077582 · Cited by 13
“In contrast, attention has also been given to the beneficial impacts of gaming (Granic et al., 2014).”
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“As such, players may solve problems using a trial-and-error process, recursively collecting evidence through experimentation, and finally assess diverse options (Granic et al., 2014).”
Crafting minds and communities with Minecraft
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“Despite the dated perception that video games are nothing more than a trivial time sink, evidence suggests that video games can have positive benefits for the cognition, motivation, and social skills of players (e.g. Granic et al., 2014).”
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“However, a balanced perspective should be adopted along with the program since normal Internet adolescent’s users or adolescents under no VVGE or lowlevel VVGE categories were negatively associated with school bullying behaviors, which indicated the possible benefits of game playing (27).”
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“Video games provide a leisure activity that enhances the individual’s overall well-being and mental health by reducing emotional disturbance, stress reduction, better emotional regulation, and greater life satisfaction (Granic et al., 2014;”
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“The Internet has potential benefits for their learning, physical and mental health, and social life, 4,5 as well as potential risks to adolescents’ mental health status.”
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Exercising library and information literacies through alternate reality gaming
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PLMan: a game-based learning activity for teaching logic thinking and programming
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Digital Media Use by Young Children
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Are Electronic Games Health Hazards or Health Promoters?
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Games and Learning: Potential and Limitations from the Players’ Point of View
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Technical drawing course, video games, gender, and type of school on spatial ability
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Videojuegos prosociales como espacio transicional lúdico para la paz: el caso de Reconstrucción
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Students’ perceptions about the use the videogames in secondary education
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Can Video Game Training Improve the Two-Dimensional Mental Rotation Ability of Young Children?
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Online Game, Addiction and Learning Achievement of Senior High School Students in Jakarta
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Designing immersive affective environments with biofeedback
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Mindfulness as an Opportunity to Narrow the Grey Digital Divide
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Using Serious Games to (Re)Train Cognition in Adolescents
Boendermaker, W. J., Peeters, M., Prins, P. J. M., & Wiers, R. W. H. J. (2017) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-319-51645-5_14 · Cited by 12
Medienkompetenz messen: Die Entwicklung des Medienprofis-Tests in der Schweiz
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In‐session gaming as a tool in treating adolescent problematic gaming
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“Serious games are scientific, multimodal, narrative, and exploratory [2] and some have been shown to positively affect cognition, motivation, emotion, and socialization [3].”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Granic, I., Lobel, A., & Engels, R. C. M. E.
- Affiliations
- Radboud University Nijmegen (NL)
- Venue
- American Psychologist
- Published
- 2014-01
- Volume
- 69
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 66-78
- ISSN
- 0003-066X (ISSN-L)
- 1935-990X
- OpenAlex
- W2063077274
- Semantic Scholar
- 12f6500480290c0d8ca6933382478f82883cde88
- Cited by
- 2,456
- References
- 72
- Citations by year
- 2026: 181 · 2025: 245 · 2024: 240 · 2023: 277 · 2022: 225 · 2021: 229 · 2020: 206 · 2019: 239 · 2018: 168 · 2017: 154 · 2016: 120 · 2015: 118 · 2014: 51
- FWCI
- 298.40
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- American Psychologist (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Radboud Repository (Radboud University) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Digital Games and Media
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Educational Games and Gamification
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Keywords
- video games, children and adolescents, cognitive benefits, motivation, emotional benefits, social benefits, mental health, psychosocial development, media psychology, positive psychology, game-based intervention
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adolescent Behavior, Child, Child Behavior, Cognition, Emotions, Humans, Mental Health, Motivation, Social Behavior, Video Games
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