Female Gaming, Gaming Addiction, and the Role of Women Within Gaming Culture: A Narrative Literature Review.

ABSTRACT: Research investigating female gaming has begun to emerge despite gaming being traditionally more popular with males. Research in the 21st century has drawn attention to the role of women in culture, society, and technology, and female gaming is one of the growing phenomena not to have been researched in depth. The aim of the present paper was to review female gaming (i.e., the role of females within video game culture) and identify any associated psychopathological symptomatology. The review adapted the Sample, Phenomenon of Interest, Design, Evaluation, Research (SPIDER) model in conducting a narrative literature review. A search of three scientific electronic databases yielded 49 papers for further evaluation. From a methodological perspective, studies had to fulfill the following criter

SUBMITTER: Lopez-Fernandez O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6635696 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature