MaghrebGator
Luminary
- Joined
- Dec 19, 2023
- Posts
- 8,428
- Reputation
- 13,704
"To our knowledge, this is the first study examining how personal attributes influence gaming behavior."
"We investigate the relationship between physical attractiveness and the time people devote to video/computer gaming. Average American teenagers spend 2.6% of their waking hours gaming, while for adults this figure is 2.7%. Using the American Add Health Study, we show that adults who are better-looking have more close friends. Arguably, gaming is costlier for them, and they thus engage in less of it. Physically attractive teens are less likely to engage in gaming at all, whereas unattractive teens who do game spend more time each week on it than other gamers. Attractive adults are also less likely than others to spend any time gaming; and if they do, they spend less time on it than less attractive adults. Using the longitudinal nature of the Add Health Study, we find supportive evidence that these relationships are causal for adults: good looks decrease gaming time, not vice-versa.
Consequently, we hypothesize a negative relationship between beauty and gaming
time, suggesting that individuals considered more attractive are likely to spend less time gaming. In other words, good-looking gamers will be relatively scarce because of the higher cost of gaming that they face.
Here the full study, i'm not going to read this disgrace
"We investigate the relationship between physical attractiveness and the time people devote to video/computer gaming. Average American teenagers spend 2.6% of their waking hours gaming, while for adults this figure is 2.7%. Using the American Add Health Study, we show that adults who are better-looking have more close friends. Arguably, gaming is costlier for them, and they thus engage in less of it. Physically attractive teens are less likely to engage in gaming at all, whereas unattractive teens who do game spend more time each week on it than other gamers. Attractive adults are also less likely than others to spend any time gaming; and if they do, they spend less time on it than less attractive adults. Using the longitudinal nature of the Add Health Study, we find supportive evidence that these relationships are causal for adults: good looks decrease gaming time, not vice-versa.
Consequently, we hypothesize a negative relationship between beauty and gaming
time, suggesting that individuals considered more attractive are likely to spend less time gaming. In other words, good-looking gamers will be relatively scarce because of the higher cost of gaming that they face.
Here the full study, i'm not going to read this disgrace
