title: Personality differences between online game players and nonplayers in a student sample.
abstract: This study examines the differences in openness, conscientiousness, and extraversion between online game players and nonplayers using a student sample. The matched sample comprised 130 pairs of students, who are paired in gender and age. The results indicate that online game players reported higher scores in openness, conscientiousness, and extraversion than did nonplayers.
authors.affiliation: Department of Business Administration, Chang Gung University, Taiwan, Republic of China. chingit@mail.cgu.edu.tw
authors.forename: Ching-I
authors.initials: CI
authors.lastname: Teng
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D008297:Male; D010551:Personality; D010555:Personality Inventory; D013334:Students; D018910:Video Games