Why is This Happening to Me? How Player Attribution can Broaden our Understanding of Player ...
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Argues that attribution theory predicts emotions and motivation in games and delivers a validated 13‑item game-specific attribution questionnaire tested on 211 players across two games (match‑three and whack‑a‑mole) with good model fit, reliability, and metric invariance. Reports internality and controllability are highly confounded, shows the scale correlates with personality and IMI scores, and gives concrete results: attribution explains when hard difficulty feels engaging versus punishing and why assisted wins still receive self-serving attributions.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Introduction to attribution theory
- 5:45Measuring player attribution
- 10:00Attribution in game difficulty
- 14:52Player experience insights
- 19:41Q&A summary
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