文献类型：期刊文献

英文题名：Wean your child off video games: Using external rewards to undermine intrinsic motivation to play interesting video games

作者：Hong, Wei[1];Jing, Yuanyuan[1];Liu, Ru-De[1];Ding, Yi[2];Wang, Jia[3]

第一作者：Hong, Wei

通讯作者：Liu, RD[1]

机构：[1]Beijing Normal Univ, Natl Demonstrat Ctr Expt Psychol Educ Beijing Nor, Fac Psychol, Beijing Key Lab Appl Expt Psychol, Beijing 100875, Peoples R China;[2]Fordham Univ, Grad Sch Educ, New York, NY 10023 USA;[3]Beijing Union Univ, Teachers Coll, Beijing 100011, Peoples R China

第一机构：Beijing Normal Univ, Natl Demonstrat Ctr Expt Psychol Educ Beijing Nor, Fac Psychol, Beijing Key Lab Appl Expt Psychol, Beijing 100875, Peoples R China

通讯机构：[1]corresponding author), Beijing Normal Univ, Natl Demonstrat Ctr Expt Psychol Educ Beijing Nor, Fac Psychol, Beijing Key Lab Appl Expt Psychol, Beijing 100875, Peoples R China.

年份：0

外文期刊名：CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY

收录：;Scopus(收录号：2-s2.0-85126233154);WOS:【SSCI(收录号:WOS:000768631300005)】；

基金：This research was supported by the National Social Science Fund of China (grant numbers 17BSH102).

语种：英文

外文关键词：Undermining effect; External rewards; Extrinsic motivation; Intrinsic motivation; Video games

摘要：Numerous research findings have supported that external rewards can reduce an individual's intrinsic motivation under well-specified conditions in many domains. This study focused on video game play situations and aimed to examine whether external rewards could undermine children's game-play intrinsic motivation and whether initial interest serves as a potential moderator in this conditional process. Using two-phase experiment designs, two samples of children were and were not rewarded for playing a targeted video game (study 1) and their most favorite/least favorite video games (study 2). Intrinsic motivation was measured by self-reported questionnaires, including affective aspects (i.e., game liking) and decisional aspects (i.e., game-play willingness). The results did not show an overall undermining effect of external reward on game play intrinsic motivation, but revealed a decrease in game-play willingness (not game liking) only for the video games with high initial interest. Taken together, this study was the first attempt to apply the undermining effect in video game play situations and suggested that high initial interest would strengthen the occurrence of this undermining effect, which offers valuable insights for developing targeted interventions to reduce children's excessive game-play behaviors from a novel perspective.