Can playing Dungeons and Dragons be good for you? A registered exploratory pilot programme using offline tabletop role-playing games to mitigate social anxiety and reduce problematic involvement in multiplayer online video games

Can playing Dungeons and Dragons be good for you? A registered exploratory pilot programme using offline tabletop role-playing games to mitigate social anxiety and reduce problematic involvement in multiplayer online video games

Gamers with poor self-concept, high social anxiety and high loneliness are more at risk of problematic involvement in video games, such as massively multiplayer online role-playing games. There is a research gap concerning treatment approaches to cater to socially anxious gamers with problematic pat...

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Main Authors: Joël Billieux, Loïs Fournier, Lucien Rochat, Iliyana Georgieva, Charlotte Eben, Marc Malmdorf Andersen, Daniel L. King, Olivier Simon, Yasser Khazaal, Andreas Lieberoth, Jonathan Bloch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Royal Society 2025-04-01
Series:Royal Society Open Science
Subjects:
gaming disorder
MMORPG
problematic gaming
registered report
role-playing game
social anxiety treatment
Online Access:https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.250273
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