• DOI:10.1016/j.jadohealth.2007.12.002
Corpus ID: 45325630

Video games and adolescents' intentions to take risks in traffic.

@article{Beullens2008VideoGA,
  title={Video games and adolescents' intentions to take risks in traffic.},
  author={K. Beullens and K. Roe and J. Van den Bulck},
  journal={The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine},
  year={2008},
  volume={43 1},
  pages={
          87-90
        }
}

• K. Beullens, K. Roe, J. Van den Bulck
• Published 2008
• Psychology, Medicine
• The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine

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In a sample of 2193 adolescents the impact of racing games and drive'em up games on the intention to engage in risky driving was examined. The results indicated that playing video games is a small predictor of attitudes (standardized total effect of .171), which in turn, predict fun riding intentions (R(2) = .555).