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Hok-Ko Pong – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2024
This study explores the correlation between spiritual well-being and game addiction among Chinese youths in Hong Kong. To examine such a relationship, cross-sectional data (N = 401) were taken from a sample of 209 Chinese university students in 2021 and 192 Chinese university students in 2022. They are between 18-21 years old. The participants…
Descriptors: Well Being, Spiritual Development, Addictive Behavior, Undergraduate Students
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Falkenthal, Evan; Byrne, Andrew M. – Journal of Campus Activities Practice and Scholarship, 2020
Collegiate esports communities are as prone to bullying as other campus social spaces are. This pilot study surveyed student members of competitive online gaming clubs on a midsized university campus. Participants self-reported bullying experiences both in and out of game and indicated whether they primarily play support roles or core roles within…
Descriptors: Bullying, Student Attitudes, Student Behavior, Social Influences
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Cox, Eric – Journal of Political Science Education, 2021
This paper presents results from a comparative analysis of two sections of Introduction to International Politics, one of which used a traditional research paper as a supplemental assignment and one that used the Statecraft online simulation. Both sections were taught during the same semester and used common lecture notes, PowerPoint slides, exam…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Foreign Policy, International Relations, Political Science
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Kanat, Sevtap – International Education Studies, 2019
Today, with the developing technology, the use of computers, mobile phones and the internet has become indispensable tools of people's lives. Technology has created new risks while facilitating the living conditions. Especially, there are various addiction concepts that negatively affect human life. Digital game addiction has been added to the…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Addictive Behavior, Correlation, Communication Skills
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Bressler, D. M.; Bodzin, A. M. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2013
Current studies have reported that secondary students are highly engaged while playing mobile augmented reality (AR) learning games. Some researchers have posited that players' engagement may indicate a flow experience, but no research results have confirmed this hypothesis with vision-based AR learning games. This study investigated factors…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Affective Behavior, Learner Engagement, Secondary School Students
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Panagiotakopoulos, Chris T.; Sarris, Menelaos E. – International Education Studies, 2013
The present study reports the basic characteristics of a game-like application entitled "Playing with Words-PwW". PwW is a single-user application where a word must be guessed given an anagram of that word. Anagrams are presented from a predefined word list and users can repeatedly try to guess the word, from which the anagram is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Educational Games, Word Lists
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Kim, Do Kyun; Dinu, Lucian F.; Chung, Wonjon – International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education, 2013
Currently, the South Korean government is in the process of transforming school textbooks from a paper-based platform to a computer-based digital platform. Along with this effort, interactive online educational games (edu-games) have been examined as a potential component of the digital textbooks. Based on the theory of diffusion of innovations,…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Textbooks, Foreign Countries, Grade 4
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Tsai, Fu-Hsing; Yu, Kuang-Chao; Hsiao, Hsien-Sheng – Educational Technology & Society, 2012
This study developed an educational online game, Super Delivery, targeting knowledge about saving electricity, and conducted case studies of eight sixth-grade students using this game to explore the factors influencing the effectiveness of students' knowledge acquisition in digital game-based learning (DGBL). This study followed Miles and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Games, Computer Games, Outcomes of Education
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Pracana, Clara, Ed.; Wang, Michael, Ed. – Online Submission, 2018
This book contains a compilation of papers presented at the International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends (InPACT) 2018, organized by the World Institute for Advanced Research and Science (W.I.A.R.S.). Modern psychology offers a large range of scientific fields where it can be applied. The goal of understanding individuals and…
Descriptors: Educational Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Cognitive Psychology
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Temple, Linda; Lips, Hilary M. – Computers in Human Behavior, 1989
Describes study of college students that was designed to test the hypotheses that females would differ from males on four aspects of computer-related attitudes: (1) interest/enjoyment; (2) comfort and confidence; (3) computers as a male domain; and (4) social impact of computers. Some strategies for improving female students' attitudes toward…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Attitude Measures, Computer Anxiety, Computer Assisted Instruction
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Rocheleau, Bruce – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 1995
Studies patterns of computer use based on data from the National Science Foundation's Longitudinal Study of American Youth in which 7th- and 10th-grade students were surveyed for five consecutive years. Highlights include parental backgrounds; socioeconomic status; parental attitudes; student attitudes; gender differences; computer ownership; and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Games, Computer Use
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers