Andrew K Przybylski

From Breakups to Lethargy: Player Accounts of Third Variables Affecting Video Game Playtime and Wellbeing

Time spent playing video games (playtime) is not strongly correlated with wellbeing. However, quantitative studies often overlook `third variables' that confound this relationship---risking masked true effects or spurious associations. In this mixed-methods study, we first conducted a qualitative template analysis of…