Positive mental well-being and immune transcriptional profiles in highly involved videogame players.

ABSTRACT: Previous research has identified a link between experiencing life as meaningful and purposeful-what is referred to as "eudaimonia"-and reduced expression of a stress-induced gene profile known as the "conserved transcriptional response to adversity" (CTRA). In the current study, we examine whether similar links between eudaimonic well-being and CTRA reduction occur in a sample of 56 individuals with a particularly strong engagement with virtual worlds: avid online videogame players. Results consistently linked higher eudaimonic well-being, and more specifically the social well-being subdomain of eudaimonia, to lower levels of CTRA gene expression. That favorable psychobiological relationship between eudaimonia and CTRA appeared most strongly among individuals reporting high levels of posit

SUBMITTER: Snodgrass JG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6800642 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature