AUTHOR=Orosz G¨˘bor , Zsila ?gnes , Vallerand Robert J. , B?the Be¨˘ta 

TITLE=On the Determinants and Outcomes of Passion for Playing Pok¨Śmon Go

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology

VOLUME=Volume 9 - 2018

YEAR=2018

URL=/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00316

DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00316

ISSN=1664-1078

ABSTRACT=In 2016, Pok¨Śmon Go became the most popular smartphone game. Despite the increasing popularity of this augmented reality game, to date, no studies have investigated passion for playing Pok¨Śmon Go. On the theoretical basis of the Dualistic Model of Passion, our goal was to investigate the associations between Pok¨Śmon Go playing motives, passion, and impulsivity. A total of 621 Pok¨Śmon Go players participated in the study (54.9% female; Mage = 22.6 years, SDage= 4.4). It was found that impulsivity was more strongly associated with obsessive passion (OP) than with harmonious passion (HP). HP was associated with adaptive motives (i.e., outdoor activity, social, recreation, and nostalgia), while OP was associated with less adaptive motives (i.e., fantasy, escape, boredom, competition, and coping). Therefore, in line with the Dualistic Model of Passion, HP and OP for playing Pok¨Śmon Go can predict an almost perfectly distinguished set of adaptive or maladaptive playing motives, and OP has a noteworthy relationship with impulsivity as a determinant.