Controlling and Anti-Controlling Between Parents and Their Adolescent Children on Gaming Behavior: A Perspective of Resisting in Everyday Life

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.200316.277How to use a DOI?

Keywords

adolescent, gaming practice, everyday life, strategy, tactics

Abstract

With the number of adolescent players keeps raising, more and more parents get involved into the video game playing behavior of their adolescent children. While the video games have some positive effects on players such as the training of players’ way of thinking, they can also make players addictive, especially for adolescents. The double-edged features of video games result in confrontations against gaming activity between parents and children. Thus the employment of strategy and tactics are taking place everyday in adolescent players’ gaming practice. A qualitative method has been used to analyze what are the strategies that parents apply and how the children react. The author interviewed 16 adolescent players aged 13-24 and 6 parents with different professions including stay-at-home moms. The theory of daily life practice proposed by Michel de Certeau was employed as a theoretic framework. It is found that parents get control of gaming time and equipments, while children are good at transferring gaming space. Compromising as well as strengthening of strategies toward tactics will follow when the academic performance or the health of adolescent players make some change. It is also found that most adolescents actually prefer off-line activities other than video games when the activities are attractive enough, which should be considered more by parents as well as schools. Limitation and further research have also been discussed.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Xiaomei Hu
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/03/19
TI  - Controlling and Anti-Controlling Between Parents and Their Adolescent Children on Gaming Behavior: A Perspective of Resisting in Everyday Life
BT  - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Culture, Education and Economic Development of Modern Society (ICCESE 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1272
EP  - 1277
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200316.277
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200316.277
ID  - Hu2020
ER  -