Qualitative study : The impacts of e-sports training developmental group on youth

Abstract

Electronic sports (E-sports) is a growing form of team competition conducted through electronic systems and devices. With the development of technology and popularization of the Internet, electronic sports are regarded as one of the upcoming trends for youth in this generation. According to the research conducted in the recent years, there are more and more youth willing to be involved in this industry and having positive feedback. Also, e-sports became the demonstration project of Asian games in 2018. As a result, this give rise to the concern of the social work field and some youth service centers started to organize E-sports related activities.

However, not all the people in our society are holding a positive attitude towards E-sports and consider E-sports may bring negative impacts on youth participants while there is no consensus on whether E-sports group in youth service bring positive or negative impacts on youth service users. This research was conducted in the form of qualitative study while 4 youth and 2 social workers who are experienced in E-sport training group in the recent were invited to be interviewed. A positive result was conducted on answering the research question and different impacts was discovered in this report. In this study, researcher aim to find out the impacts brought by the E-sports training developmental group and conduct an in-depth analysis to explore the question of “How the group gives impacts' ' and “Why are there different impacts on youth”.