Overviewing Gaming Motivation and Its Associated Psychological and Sociodemographic Variables: A PRISMA Systematic Review

Table 4

Most agreed motivation for gender and number of papers that support these findings.

Males	Females
Competition^13 ()	Relationship motivation^59 ()
Escape^25 ()	Social motivation^65 ()
Intrinsic motivation^38 ()	Escape^25 ()
Integrated regulation^36 ()	Fantasy^28 ()
Identified regulation^34 ()
External regulation^27 ()