%0 Journal Article %T The Video Game from the Perspective of Positive Psychology %A Shuang Liang %A Honghan Li %A Xiaojun Yang %J Open Journal of Social Sciences %P 57-60 %@ 2327-5960 %D 2014 %I Scientific Research Publishing %R 10.4236/jss.2014.28009 %X

In recent years, video games have become one of the primary means of people¡¯s daily entertainment. With the diversification of video gaming platform and the enrichment of the contents, the impact of video games on people¡¯s mental health and behavior is increasing, and thus becomes a hot research area of psychology. Traditional psychology has done a lot of research on the negative impact of video games, but the advent of positive psychology offers a new research perspective of the video game. This paper presents a review of the research focusing on the video games on people¡¯s emotions, positive personal trait quality positive personal trait, relationships from the perspective of positive psychology, and offers suggestion for future video games design.

%K Positive Psychology %K Video Games %K Positive Effect %K Video Game Design %U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=49043