TY - JOUR
T1 - Alone or together? Exploring the role of desire for online group gaming in players’ social game addiction
AU - Gong, Xiang
AU - Zhang, Kem Z.K.
AU - Cheung, Christy M. K.
AU - Chen, Chongyang
AU - Lee, Matthew K.O.
N1 - Funding Information:
The work described in this study was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 71671174 , No. 71801166 ) and the Hong Kong Research Grant Council (No. 7004777 , 9042584 ).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Elsevier B
PY - 2019/9
Y1 - 2019/9
N2 - Drawing on dual-system theory, this study examines the role of desire for online group gaming in online social game addiction. By conducting a longitudinal online survey, we show that attitude, anticipated enjoyment, group norm, and social identity contribute to the development of desire for online group gaming. Such desire facilitates habit and self-regulation deficiency, which, in turn, fosters online social game addiction. This study contributes to the literature by theorizing a nomological network of desire for online group gaming on online social game addiction and by offering implications for managing addictive gaming.
AB - Drawing on dual-system theory, this study examines the role of desire for online group gaming in online social game addiction. By conducting a longitudinal online survey, we show that attitude, anticipated enjoyment, group norm, and social identity contribute to the development of desire for online group gaming. Such desire facilitates habit and self-regulation deficiency, which, in turn, fosters online social game addiction. This study contributes to the literature by theorizing a nomological network of desire for online group gaming on online social game addiction and by offering implications for managing addictive gaming.
KW - Desire for online group gaming
KW - Dual-system theory
KW - Habit
KW - Online social game addiction
KW - Self-regulation
KW - Technology addiction
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85059612988&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.im.2019.01.001
DO - 10.1016/j.im.2019.01.001
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85059612988
SN - 0378-7206
VL - 56
JO - Information and Management
JF - Information and Management
IS - 6
M1 - 103139
ER -