Comparison of Progressive Motivation, Psychological Resilience, and Failure Tolerance in Professional Players, Amateur Players and Non-Players of Video Games

The aim of this study was to compare the motivation of progress, psychological resilience and tolerance of failure in professional players, amateur players and non-players of video games. The method of this research was causal-comparative and descriptive. The statistical population of the study included all the students of Ardabil in the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth grades. From this community, 90 people were selected using a possible multi-stage cluster sampling method; 30 professional players, 30 amateur players, and 30 non-players. The required data of the study were collected using Harrington's failure Tolerance Questionnaire, Connor and Davidson's Resilience Scale, and Herman's Motivation Progress Questionnaire. The analysis of the data illustrated that there was a significant difference between the groups in terms of the variables of psychological resilience (P<0.01) and failure tolerance (P<0.01); however, there was no significant difference in terms of the variable progress motivation (P<0.05). Therefore, in regard to the resilience component, professional players were more resilient than amateur players and in turn professional and amateur players significantly more than non-players. In addition, regarding the failure tolerance component, professional players were more tolerant than amateur players and amateur players more than non-players. In this regard, professional players were significantly more tolerant in comparison to non-players.