@article{10272/24403,
year = {2023},
url = {https://hdl.handle.net/10272/24403},
abstract = {The use of video games has increased exponentially worldwide, mainly among the youth population. The main objective of this article is to evaluate the consumption habits and motivations of engineering students to play video games. To this end, an instrument to measure the use of video games and a scale of motivations were administered to 633 students enrolled in different academic engineering programs at a Peruvian public university. It was found that 91.3% of students play video games, compared to 8.7% who have never played them; it was also found that their use is greater among male students (95%) than among female students (73.4%). Likewise, it was found that these students prefer strategy video games, and that they mostly play them for escape and entertainment, and for socioemotional activation. It is concluded that consumption habits and motivations are related, since the greater the consumption of video games, the greater the motivation is for young people to play them.},
organization = {We would like to acknowledge to Universidad Nacional de San Agustín de Arequipa for the financing
granted to the project “Gamificación transmedia y videojuegos para promover la redacción científica en
estudiantes de Ingeniería” [Transmedia gamification and video games to promote scientific writing among
engineering students], with Contract No. IBA-IB-38-2020-UNSA.},
publisher = {Omnia Publisher},
title = {Motivations and use of video games in engineering students},
doi = {10.3926/jotse.1897},
author = {Núñez Pacheco, Rosa and Turpo Gebera, Osbaldo and Barreda Parra, Aymé and Vidal, Elizabeth and Castro Gutiérrez, Eveling and Aguaded, José Ignacio},
}