@article{ref1,
title="Gender differences and the effect of contextual features on game enjoyment and responses",
journal="Cyberpsychology, behavior and social networking",
year="2010",
author="Lin, Shu-Fang",
volume="13",
number="5",
pages="533-537",
abstract="This article explores the effect of gender and contextual features on emotional reactions, identification toward game characters, and game enjoyment. Two aspects of contextual features are specifically examined: the moral justification of game characters and violence. An experiment was conducted by allowing participants to play either a morally justified character of a non-violent game, a morally justified character of a violent game, or a morally unjustified character of a violent game. The results show that participants felt less guilty and identified with the characters more when playing the morally justified characters of the non-violent game. Furthermore, males and females demonstrate different patterns of enjoyment to different contextual features of video games. The implications of these findings and directions for future research are discussed.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2152-2715",
doi="10.1089/cyber.2009.0293",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/cyber.2009.0293"
}