Dr Jessica Formosa
Senior Research Coordinator
School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
Journal Articles
Formosa, Jessica, Türkay, Selen, Mandryk, Regan L. and Johnson, Daniel (2025). A qualitative exploration on the role of videogames during difficult times: an emotion regulation perspective. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 9 (6), 953-975. doi: 10.1145/3748628
Formosa, Jessica, Frommel, Julian, Mandryk, Regan L., Tobin, Stephanie J., Turkay, Selen and Johnson, Daniel (2025). Emotion regulation, need satisfaction, passion and problematic video game play during difficult times. Behaviour and Information Technology, 44 (13), 3271-3296. doi: 10.1080/0144929x.2024.2440779
Formosa, Jessica, O'donnell, Nicholas, Horton, Ella M., Türkay, Selen, Mandryk, Regan L., Hawks, Michael and Johnson, Daniel (2022). Definitions of esports: a systematic review and thematic analysis. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 6 (CHI PLAY) 227, 1-45. doi: 10.1145/3549490
Turkay, Selen, Lin, Allan, Johnson, Daniel and Formosa, Jessica (2022). Self-determination theory approach to understanding the impact of videogames on wellbeing during COVID-19 restrictions. Behaviour and Information Technology, 42 (11), 1720-1739. doi: 10.1080/0144929x.2022.2094832
Formosa, Jessica, Johnson, Daniel, Turkay, Selen and Mandryk, Regan L. (2022). Need satisfaction, passion and wellbeing effects of videogame play prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Computers in Human Behavior, 131 107232, 107232. doi: 10.1016/j.chb.2022.107232
Luxford, Ethan, Tuerkay, Selen, Frommel, Julian, Tobin, Stephanie J., Mandryk, Regan L., Formosa, Jessica and Johnson, Daniel (2022). Self-regulation as a mediator of the associations between passion for video games and well-being. CyberPsychology, Behavior and Social Networking, 25 (5), 310-315. doi: 10.1089/cyber.2021.0321
Johnson, Daniel, Formosa, Jessica, Perry, Ryan, Lalande, Daniel, Turkay, Selen, Obst, Patricia and Mandryk, Regan (2022). Unsatisfied needs as a predictor of obsessive passion for videogame play. Psychology of Popular Media, 11 (1), 47-55. doi: 10.1037/ppm0000299
Conference Papers
Turkay, Selen, Formosa, Jessica, Cuthbert, Robert, Adinolf, Sonam and Brown, Ross Andrew (2021). Virtual reality esports - understanding competitive players' perceptions of location based VR esports. CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Electr Network, 8-13 May 2021. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3411764.3445073
Turkay, Selen, Formosa, Jessica, Adinolf, Sonam, Cuthbert, Robert and Altizer, Roger (2020). See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil: how collegiate esports players define, experience and cope with toxicity. CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Electr Network, 25-30 April 2020. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3313831.3376191
Thesis
Formosa, Jessica (2025). The role of videogames during difficult times: through the lens of self-determination theory and the dualistic model of passion. PhD Thesis, School of Computer Science, Faculty of Science, Queensland University of Technology. doi: 10.5204/thesis.eprints.260433