The Video Game from the Perspective of Positive Psychology

Shuang Liang^*, Honghan Li, Xiaojun Yang

School of Educational Science, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin, China.

DOI: 10.4236/jss.2014.28009                

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.

Keywords

Positive Psychology, Video Games, Positive Effect, Video Game Design

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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