Investigating Psychological Well-Being Levels of Teenagers Interested in Esport Career

Abstract

Recently, thanks to technological developments, there has been growing a new industry: Electronic Sports. Nowadays, playing video games might be seem as a career option. Teenagers who are interested in esport career play video games for a long time in their daily life as much as professional esport players do. Excessive plays of video games have been known to cause psychological, physiological and mental problems. Playing video games for a long time in daily life causes social, emotional and mental problems such as depression, agression, intolerability, lose of control. The research’s study group consists of teenager students in high schools and colleges in Turkey. Web-based questionnaire and psychologocial well-being scale had been used to collect data. Using data from a survey of 320 teenagers in Turkey, we tested psychological well-being levels of teenagers with daily playing video game times and teenagers’ desire of having esport career. The results show that daily playing video game times effecting psychological well-being levels of teenagers. Additionally, teenagers’ desire of having esport career is significant predictor of low psychological well-being level.

Keywords

• Electronic sports,teenagers,psychological well-being,esport career

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