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Computers in Human Behavior 52 (2015) 379–386 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Computers in Human Behavior journal homepage: www.elsevi /locate/comphumbeh Clinicians’ attitudes toward video games vary as a function of age, gender and negative beliefs about youth: A sociology of media research approach Christopher J. Ferguson Department of Psychology, Stetson University, 421N. Woodland Blvd., DeLand, FL 32729, United States a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Debates regarding purported negative effects of video games have raged among scholars, clinicians and in Available online 23 June 2015 the public arena. Surveys of both scholars and the general public reveal wide discrepancies in beliefs about the potential harmfulness of video games, and some evidence suggests that a ‘‘generational divide’’ Keywords: may be at play. The current study examines this in a sample of 109 clinicians and clinical researchers. Videogames Beliefs about the potential harmfulness of video games varied widely in the sample, reflecting absence Clinical psychology of a consensus. Beliefs about the harmfulness of video games were predicted by respondents’ age, female Personality gender and negative beliefs about youth. Contrary to hypotheses, respondents’ neuroticism, openness, Youth pacifism and previous gaming experience did not predict beliefs about video g