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A Game-based Assessment of the Effects of Rejection on Young Adults

Published:2021-10-05 Issue:CHI PLAY Volume:5 Page:1-27
ISSN:2573-0142
Container-title:Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
language:en
Short-container-title:Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

Author:

Tuijnman Anouk¹,Kleinjan Marloes²,Chen Shengnan³,Engels Rutger C.M.E.⁴,Granic Isabela³

Affiliation:

1. Radboud University & Trimbos-institute, Nijmegen & Utrecht, Netherlands

2. Trimbos-institute & Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands

3. Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands

4. Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Abstract

Rejection consists of a range of behaviors from ignoring another to explicitly excluding someone from an encounter. Currently available experimental tasks have shown that rejection has strong emotional, behavioral, and physical effects, but the tasks have some limitations. We argue that video games can address these limitations and have developed a new experimental task (ScrollQuest) to show the potential of video games as rejection research tools. The primary goal of the present study was to explore the effects of ScrollQuest. We analyzed data from 116 young adults who played both ScrollQuest and the rejection experimental task Cyberball. Playing ScrollQuest had more negative effects on mood, more negative interpretation effects were observed after playing ScrollQuest, and ScrollQuest was perceived as more enjoyable, compared to Cyberball. Our findings suggest that ScrollQuest might be an effective new experimental task to study rejection in a digital environment, but more work is needed to improve ScrollQuest.

Funder

Dutch Research Council

Pluryn

GGZ Oost Brabant

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Subject

Computer Networks and Communications,Human-Computer Interaction,Social Sciences (miscellaneous)

Link

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3474681

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