The Impact of Video Games on the Players Behaviors: A Survey

TLDR

Video games have become highly popular, expanding the industry into areas such as education, entertainment, and social relationships, while studies remain divided on whether they influence player behavior. The study aims to examine both supportive and opposing research on video game effects from two perspectives. The authors analyze the skills and reactions—both positive (e.g., problem‑solving, social bonding) and negative (e.g., aggression, anxiety)—that players acquire, and evaluate the evidence supporting prior conclusions.

Abstract

The great popularity of video games and their ability to make players indulge, the turnout of players to play video games dramatically led to transforming the video game industry from the entertainment side to be involved in most other areas in the life. Examples of these areas are education, entertainment and promoting social relationships. Some studies find out that there is a relationship between the video games and the player’s behavior. However, there are another studies denied this kind of relationship. In this paper, we will explore these two types of studies in two aspects. First, we will study what kind of skills or reactions that the player will earn after playing kind of games. These reactions can be explicit or implicit and positive or negative reactions such as development, improving social relationships, enhance the problem solving skills or violence, aggression, anxiety or stressful reaction. In the second part of the paper, we will address the evidences that are used by the previous studies to demonstrate the validity of their conclusions.