RT Journal Article
T1 Motivations and use of video games in engineering students
A1 Núñez Pacheco, Rosa
A1 Turpo Gebera, Osbaldo
A1 Barreda Parra, Aymé
A1 Vidal, Elizabeth
A1 Castro Gutiérrez, Eveling
A1 Aguaded, José Ignacio
AB 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.
PB Omnia Publisher
SN 2014-5349
SN 2013-6374 (electrónico)
YR 2023
FD 2023
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10272/24403
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10272/24403
LA eng
NO Núñez-Pacheco, R., Turpo-Gebera, O., Barreda-Parra, A., Vidal, E., Castro-Gutierrez, E., & Aguaded, I. (2023). Motivations and use of video games in engineering students. In Journal of Technology and Science Education (Vol. 13, Issue 2, p. 532). Omnia Publisher SL. https://doi.org/10.3926/jotse.1897
NO We would like to acknowledge to Universidad Nacional de San Agustín de Arequipa for the financinggranted to the project “Gamificación transmedia y videojuegos para promover la redacción científica enestudiantes de Ingeniería” [Transmedia gamification and video games to promote scientific writing amongengineering students], with Contract No. IBA-IB-38-2020-UNSA.
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 31 may 2026