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Parental Antecedents to Video Game Co-Playing: Parental Gaming Beliefs as Predictors of Video Game Co-Playing

Hassan, Toqa A
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5376-1239
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1691081551448667

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2023, PHD, Kent State University, College of Communication and Information.
In this dissertation, the main goal was to examine whether the theory of planned behavior is a better theoretical framework with contextual antecedents, such as parental gaming antecedents to video game co-playing intentions and behaviors. This is first accomplished by measuring the underlying beliefs parents have about video games that either propel them to co-play or not to co-play video games with their kids. Since this study is guided by the theory of planned behavior (Ajzen, 1991), intentions and behaviors are predicted by attitude, subjective norm, and perceived behavioral control belief constructs. Ajzen (1991, 2020) suggests that more constructs can be included to further predict intentions and behavior. In the case of parents, I suggest that beliefs about a behavior relating to their children are likely formed by personal beliefs about the behavior as it relates to themselves. Specifically, parents hold beliefs about activities that they then, must readjust when they think about doing the behavior with their kids. As such, I predict that parents’ beliefs about playing video games are contextual antecedents to parents’ beliefs about co-playing video games with their children. In this study, I propose an addition to the TPB model by including a new set of behavioral constructs, gaming antecedents, as preceding constructs to parents’ co-playing constructs. I find that contextual antecedents related to gaming inform parents’ co-playing beliefs. The findings indicate that parents have preconceived notions about gaming, shaping their beliefs and perspectives toward co-playing with their children. These contextual antecedents can even predict parents’ likelihood of co-playing with their kids. When studying parent-child shared behaviors, the inclusion of contextual variables into future TPB models helps define and explain how parents’ prior beliefs and behaviors affect the behaviors they share with their children.
Jennifer McCullough (Advisor)
Chance York (Committee Co-Chair)
Enrico Gandolfi (Committee Member)
Miriam Matteson (Committee Member)
David Silva (Committee Member)
153 p.
Communication
family communication, theory of planned behavior, video games, co-playing

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  • Hassan, T. A. (2023). Parental Antecedents to Video Game Co-Playing: Parental Gaming Beliefs as Predictors of Video Game Co-Playing [Doctoral dissertation, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1691081551448667

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Hassan, Toqa. Parental Antecedents to Video Game Co-Playing: Parental Gaming Beliefs as Predictors of Video Game Co-Playing. 2023. Kent State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1691081551448667.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Hassan, Toqa. "Parental Antecedents to Video Game Co-Playing: Parental Gaming Beliefs as Predictors of Video Game Co-Playing." Doctoral dissertation, Kent State University, 2023. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1691081551448667

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