Use of military-themed first-person shooter games and militarism: An investigation of two potential facilitating mechanisms

摘要

This study explored the link between use of military-themed first-person shooter games and militaristic attitudes. Using cultivation theory as a backdrop, the present work suggested that moral disengagement and hostile attribution bias facilitate a positive relationship between military-themed first-person shooter game use and militaristic attitudes. Results of a path model indicated that moral disengagement did, in fact, serve as an intermediary in the relationship between military-themed first-person shooter game use and participant militarism. However, this study did not show any evidence that use of militarythemed first-person games was statistically related to hostile attribution bias or that hostile attribution bias was associated with militaristic attitudes. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.