Career as a professional gamer: gaming motives as predictors of career plans to become a professional esport player

Bányai, F, Zsila, Á, Griffiths, MD ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8880-6524, Demetrovics, Z and Király, O, 2020. Career as a professional gamer: gaming motives as predictors of career plans to become a professional esport player. Frontiers in Psychology, 11: 1866. ISSN 1664-1078

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Abstract

Increasing numbers of young video gamers view esports (i.e., competitive video gaming) as a career opportunity, rather than just a recreational activity. Previous studies have explored the motivational differences between esport and recreational gamers and the motivational changes through career journey to become a professional esport player. The present study explored the predictors of career plans to become a professional esport player, with a specific focus on gaming motivations. Gaming time, gaming motivations, and esport-related playing experience were also examined among Hungarian gamers with competitive gaming experience (N = 190), such as years spent in esports, medium and frequency of participating in esport tournaments, the effort put into training before the tournaments, and the plans to become a professional esport player. Binary logistic regressions were carried out and results showed that the gaming motivations of competition, skill development, and social motivations predicted career planning as a professional esport player. Additionally, results showed that younger players were more likely to seek career opportunity as professional esport players than older players. Future studies should focus on novice esport players’ psychological exposure to the hypercompetitive scene of esports, such as high expectations or the risk of becoming problematic videogame users due to their motivational changes.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	Frontiers in Psychology
Creators:	Bányai, F., Zsila, Á., Griffiths, M.D., Demetrovics, Z. and Király, O.
Publisher:	Frontiers Media SA
Date:	5 August 2020
Volume:	11
ISSN:	1664-1078
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01866 DOI 1351298 Other
Rights:	© 2020 Bányai, Zsila, Griffiths, Demetrovics and Király. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
Divisions:	Schools > School of Social Sciences
Record created by:	Jill Tomkinson
Date Added:	10 Aug 2020 13:14
Last Modified:	31 May 2021 15:18
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/40407

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