Estruturas potencialmente aditivas em jogos para smartophones: análise de conteúdo e comentários dos jogadores

Abstract

The present study aimed to identify potentially addictive structural characteristics of electronic games from the analysis of player comments on the Play Store platform and to analyze the disposition of categorized variables and their relationships between game genres, gender of players and indicators of IGD symptoms. That’s an exploratory research, conducted through a conceptual content analysis of comments posted by players on Play Store games pages. The data obtained allowed the identification of symptoms characteristic of the IGD in the analyzed comments and pointed to a higher prevalence of symptoms among the ones written by female authors, despite the similar symptomatological distribution between both sexes. The results had “fun” as the main potentially addictive structural characteristic for both sexes, wherein intrinsic aspects, like "playability", seems to have more influence over the male gender and extrinsic aspects, like “time killer”, over the female gender.