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‘I can actually do it without any help or someone watching over me all the time and giving me constant instruction’: Autistic adolescent boys' perspectives on engagement in online video gaming

Pavlopoulou, Georgia, Usher, Claire and Pearson, Amy (2022) ‘I can actually do it without any help or someone watching over me all the time and giving me constant instruction’: Autistic adolescent boys' perspectives on engagement in online video gaming. British Journal of Developmental Psychology. pp. 1-15. ISSN 0261-510X

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Abstract

Research into autistic adolescents' engagement in online gaming has so far focused on time spent gaming, or characterizing problematic gaming behaviour and has relied mostly on caregiver report. In the current study, we interviewed 12 autistic adolescent boys, asking about their perspectives on their engagement in online gaming, and their motivations. We analysed the interview data using thematic analysis and identified three key themes in the data, which focused on agency and a sense of belonging, emotion regulation, and acknowledgement of the differing perceptions that the young people and their caregivers had of gaming. Our findings show the need to include the viewpoints of autistic young people in research about their interests and well-being, and provide insights that can help caregivers and professionals to support autistic young people in flourishing.

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Uncontrolled Keywords: adolescence, autism, gaming, video games, wellbeing
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Depositing User: Amy Pearson

Identifiers

Item ID: 14859
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1111/bjdp.12424
ISSN: 0261-510X
URI: http://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/id/eprint/14859
Official URL: https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/ful...

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ORCID for Amy Pearson: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-7089-6103

Catalogue record

Date Deposited: 20 Jun 2022 08:58
Last Modified: 20 Jun 2022 08:58

Contributors

Author: Amy Pearson ORCID iD
Author: Georgia Pavlopoulou
Author: Claire Usher

University Divisions

Faculty of Health Sciences and Wellbeing > School of Psychology

Subjects

Psychology

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