From active escapism to virtual withdrawal: Validation of the Compensatory-Dissociative Online Gaming scales (C-DOGs)
Alessandro Giardina, Loïs Fournier, Vladan Starcevic, Daniel L. King, Maria Di Blasi, Adriano Schimmenti, Joël Billieux · 2024
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Alessandro Giardina and co-authors validated a scale for why people play online games in two thousand twenty-four. Their model places gaming on a line from healthy compensation to dissociative withdrawal. Three core processes sit on that line, plus two side processes like relaxation.
They built fifty-four items from older scales and new writing, then surveyed one thousand one hundred seventy-six online gamers. Factor analysis settled on thirty-six items in six groups. These cover emotional displacement, absorption, active escapism, virtual withdrawal, dissociative regulation, and failure escape. Each group tied in distinct ways to problem gaming, passion, and distress measures. The authors say the factors can guide research and clinical work.
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| CREATOR | Alessandro Giardina, Loïs Fournier, Vladan Starcevic, Daniel L. King, Maria Di Blasi, Adriano Schimmenti, Joël Billieux |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 78 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |