TITLE:
The Video Game from the Perspective of Positive Psychology
AUTHORS:
Shuang Liang, Honghan Li, Xiaojun Yang
KEYWORDS:
Positive Psychology, Video Games, Positive Effect, Video Game Design
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.2 No.8,
August
25,
2014
ABSTRACT: In recent years, video games have become one
of the primary means of people’s daily entertainment. With the diversification
of video gaming platform and the enrichment of the contents, the impact of
video games on people’s mental health and behavior is increasing, and thus
becomes a hot research area of psychology. Traditional psychology has done a
lot of research on the negative impact of video games, but the advent of
positive psychology offers a new research perspective of the video game. This
paper presents a review of the research focusing on the video games on people’s
emotions, positive personal trait quality positive personal trait,
relationships from the perspective of positive psychology, and offers
suggestion for future video games design.