锁定和视频游戏游戏时间之间的关系:使用大规模数据遥测的多层次时间序列分析
David Zendle1, Catherine Flick2, Darel Halgarth1
1Department of Computer Science, University of York, York, United Kingdom.
Journal of medical Internet research
|November 8, 2023
概括
COVID-19封锁并没有显著增加个人视频游戏时间. 虽然学校关闭与更长的总游戏时间相关,但这是由于更多的玩家,而不是每个人的游戏时间更长.
科学领域:
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 行为科学 行为科学
- 流行病学 流行病学
背景情况:
- 包括封锁在内的COVID-19制政策引起了人们对可能对行为产生负面副作用的担忧.
- 以前的研究表明,锁定期间视频游戏增加,但依赖于自我报告的数据,容易产生偏见.
- 全球封锁对视频游戏行为的实际影响仍然不清楚.
研究的目的:
- 为了确定特定的COVID-19封锁政策是否导致个人视频游戏持续时间大幅增加.
- 分析各种制和关闭政策与游戏行为之间的关系.
主要方法:
- 利用了来自184个国家的超过2510亿小时的原始游戏遥测数据.
- 采用多层模型来评估8个制和关闭政策对游戏时间的影响.
- 研究了政策对整体游戏时间和唯一用户数量的影响.
主要成果:
- 没有锁定政策显著解释了每个单个玩家的游戏时间增加.
- 学校关闭与全国总游戏时间的适度增加有关 (r2=0.048).
- 总游戏时间的增加是由于独一无二的玩家数量的增加,而不是每个玩家的游戏时间延长 (r2<0.001).
结论:
- 这与之前的自我报告研究相矛盾,该研究表明,在大流行期间,沉重游戏的数量显著增加.
- 没有证据表明COVID-19封锁政策导致每个游戏玩家的游戏时间增加.
- 建议在将游戏障碍纳入流行病准备公共卫生政策之前进行进一步的研究.
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