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Analysis of Korean Gamers' Personality Patterns with respect to the Victim/Attacker of the Misogyny and the Misandry in Game Playing

게임 내 이성 혐오 가해자와 피해자의 성격 패턴 분석

  • Song, Doo Heon (Department of Computer Games, Yong-in SongDam College)
  • Received : 2018.07.28
  • Accepted : 2018.08.21
  • Published : 2018.11.30
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Abstract

As female gamers are rapidly increasing, the misogyny and the misandry in game playing situation are also increasing. Recent #Gamergate and GodGunbae incident exhibit that such discriminative/hate behaviour in game playing can be developed into real physical threat or crime. In this paper, we investigate and analyze young Korean game players on how the attackers group, victims group, and gender-issue-indifferent group behave differently in game playing through survey. We found that male gamers had high hostile sexism against female gamers especially on females' game attitude and streotyped hatred with respect to the gender ${\times}$ group interaction. In big-5 personality test, however, it is not clear if attackers and victims had a noticeable different personality patterns. In result, we verify that there exist gender stereotype and high hostile sexism among young Korean gamers. Active gender-equality education on their adolescent period is necessary to avoid such destructive hatred in game playing.

컴퓨터 게임 플레이 중에 발생하는 여성 혐오 현상도, 그에 대한 대응으로 발생하는 남성 혐오 행동도 여성 게이머의 증가와 함께 크게 중가하고 있다. 미국에서 벌어진 #Gamergate 사건이나 우리나라에서 벌어진 갓건배 사건 등은 이런 게임 내 성적 차별/혐오 행동이 직접적인 물리적 폭력의 위협으로 발전할 수 있음을 보여 준 위험한 사례이다. 이 논문에서 우리는 우리 청년 게이머들 중 그러한 성차별/혐오 행동의 가해자 군과 피해자 군, 그리고 일반 게이머군 사이에 어떤 차이가 있는지를 섹시즘 발현 척도를 통해 조사하고 분석하였다. 그 결과 성별로 유의한 섹시즘 차이가 존재하고 남성 그룹 중에도 세부 그룹들이 독특한 행동 패턴을 보이며 여성 가해자 그룹이 가장 높은 섹시즘 척도를 보이는 등 여러 가지 걱정스러운 현상을 감지하였다. 또한 Big-5 성격 요인 검사를 통해 이들 그룹 구성원들이 가진 성격 특성이 가해/피해 그룹 간에 차이가 있는지를 검사했는데 그 부분에서는 발생한 차이가 내재적 성격 특성인지 피해에 대한 상호작용의 결과인지는 분명하지 않았다. 결국 잘못된 성 고정관념이나 섹시즘 발현은 사회문화적 젠더 인식 교육이 청소년기에 적극적으로 이루어져야 개선될 것이라 생각한다.

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Table. 1 Taxonomy of in-game language threat

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Table. 2 Gender, Age Distribution of Subjects

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Table. 3 Degree of Sexism by Gender(G)

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Table. 4 Degree of Sexism by Group(Likert 5 point)

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Table. 5 Analysis of Sexism by Gender & Group

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Table. 6 Big 5 Personality Patterns by Group

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