[PDF] The Psychological Impacts of eSports Gaming - APRU

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4 Introduction Electronic sports, otherwise known as eSports, describes the realm of competitive and organized video gaming – where professional players from different leagues and teams would battle for the championship title along with a handsome prize pool (Palanichamy et al., 2020) for games such as Defense of the Ancients 2 (DOTA 2), League of Legends (LoL), Counter Strike: Global Offensive (CS: GO), and Overwatch (OW), to name a few (Poulus et al., 2020). In an elite and highly competitive environment, eSports athletes are prone to face issues such as burnout, depression, anxiety, addiction, and aggression due to various stressors such as the pressure to possess outstanding mental and performance skills, and excessive gaming (Palanichamy et al., 2020). Driving the eSports Industry to Greater Heights In The Invisible Game: Mindset of a Winning Team, Zoltán Andrejkovics claimed that about 50 per cent of performance breakthroughs and development is associated with the players’ mental state (Smith et al., 2019).

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