Descriptive Study of eSports Viewership Motivation of Young Adulthood in Indonesia During The COVID-19 Pandemic
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.220404.272How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- motivation; esports viewership; young adulthood
- Abstract
Motivation is a force that drives people to think and act. In regard of doing anything, motivation plays an important role in encouraging individuals to act accordingly. In the young adulthood stage, it is one of the most active stage. Through a lot of activities, motivation takes part. While the COVID-19 pandemic takes place, there’s a lot of changes happening to the daily activities. One of the biggest changes that is happening and plays a significant part in Indonesia is the eSports industry. Miranda, said the eSports industry, whether in popularity and in revenue keeps growing up. This study aims to get the idea of motivation within watching eSports in Indonesia during the COVID-19 pandemic. This research is a quantitative research, with a non-experimental research. This is a descriptive research. The subjects found in this study consisted of 130 individuals, all within the range of 20 to 28 years old. The results showed that the motivation in eSports viewership got a pretty high average (M = 5.45 and SD = 0.54). With 4 dimensions boasting a high average, which is drama, physical skill of the athletes, aesthetics, and acquisition of knowledge.
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- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Dionisius Kevin Raphael AU - Pamela Hendra Heng PY - 2022 DA - 2022/04/21 TI - Descriptive Study of eSports Viewership Motivation of Young Adulthood in Indonesia During The COVID-19 Pandemic BT - Proceedings of the 3rd Tarumanagara International Conference on the Applications of Social Sciences and Humanities (TICASH 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 1680 EP - 1686 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220404.272 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.220404.272 ID - Raphael2022 ER -