“They May Be Pixels, But They're MY Pixels:” Developing a Metric of Character Attachment in Role-Playing Video Games

摘要

This paper proposes a new and reliable metric for measuring character attachment (CA), thernconnection felt by a video game player toward a video game character. Results of constructrnvalidity analyses indicate that the proposed CA scale has a significant relationship with selfesteem,rnaddiction, game enjoyment, and time spent playing games; all of these relationshipsrnare predicted by theory. Additionally, CA levels for role-playing games differ significantlyrnfrom CA levels of other character-driven games.