Why iPlay: The Relationships of Autistic and Schizotypal Traits With Patterns of Video Game Use.

ABSTRACT: Video games are popular and ubiquitous aspects of human culture, but their relationships to psychological and neurophysiological traits have yet to be analyzed in social-evolutionary frameworks. We examined the relationships of video game usage, motivations, and preferences with autistic and schizotypal traits and two aspects of neurophysiology, reaction time and targeting time. Participants completed the Autism Quotient, Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire, a Video Game Usage Questionnaire, and two neurophysiological tasks. We tested in particular the hypotheses, motivated by theory and previous work, that: (1) participants with higher autism scores would play video games more, and participants with higher schizotypy scores would play video games less; and (2) autism and positive schizo

SUBMITTER: Yang N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8905237 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature