Motives to play videogames across seven countries: Measurement invariance of the Videogaming Motives Questionnaire
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Motives to play videogames across seven countries: Measurement invariance of the Videogaming Motives QuestionnaireAuthor (s)
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2023-05Publisher
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MICHELINI, Yanina, et al. Motives to play videogames across seven countries: Measurement invariance of the Videogaming Motives Questionnaire. Addictive Behaviors, 2023, vol. 140, p. 107624.Type
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Introduction. Gaming motives appear to be an important predictor of time spent gaming and disordered gaming.
The Videogaming Motives Questionnaire (VMQ) has shown adequate psychometric properties to assess gaming
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Introduction. Gaming motives appear to be an important predictor of time spent gaming and disordered gaming.
The Videogaming Motives Questionnaire (VMQ) has shown adequate psychometric properties to assess gaming
motives among Spanish college students. However, the utility of this measure has not yet been explored in other
cultures. This research aimed to examine the structure and measurement invariance of the VMQ across seven
countries and gender groups, and to provide criterion-related validity evidence for VMQ scores. Method. College
students who reported having played videogames in the last year (n = 5192; 59.07 % women) from the US,
Canada, South Africa, Spain, Argentina, England, and Uruguay completed an online survey to measure time spent
gaming, disordered gaming, and the VMQ. Results. Findings support a 24-item 8-intercorrelated factor model
structure for the VMQ in the total sample. Our results also support configural, metric, and scalar invariance of the
VMQ across gender groups and countries. Students from North America (US and Canada) scored higher on most
gaming motives (except recreation and cognitive development) than students from the other countries. The
correlations between VMQ and non-VMQ variables were similar across gender and countries, except in England
where VMQ correlations with time spent gaming were stronger. Discussion. These results suggest that the VMQ
is a useful measure for assessing gaming motives across young adults from different countries. [-]
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Addictive Behaviors 140 (2023)Funder Name
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) in the United State | Universitat Jaume I | Generalitat Valenciana | National Secretary of Science and Technology in Argentina | National University of Córdoba
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T32-AA018108 | UJI- B2022-29 | CIAICO/2021/052 | PICT 2018–03170
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