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The Dilemma and Breakthrough of “Gaming Dream”: A Study on the Survival Status and Career Path of Semi-Professional Gaming Youths
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Abstract
With the rapid development of the e-sports industry, semi-professional e-sports youth, as an important but relatively disadvantaged group in the e-sports career ecology, face many difficulties such as economic pressure, narrow career paths, and insufficient social cognition. This study focuses on the survival status and career path of semi-professional e-sports youth, and proposes countermeasures at the macro, meso and micro levels by analyzing the problems they face. That is, at the macro level, to improve industry policies and career protection, and to promote the standardized development of the e-sports industry; at the meso level, to improve the social perception of e-sports, and to strengthen the support of families and communities; and at the micro level, to provide players with guidance on career planning, comprehensive skills training, and mental health support, and to help them achieve sustainable development. The study shows that solving the plight of semi-professional e-sports youth not only helps to improve the career development of this group, but also has important significance for the healthy development of the e-sports industry and the diversification of the social career ecology.
Keywords
gaming dream, semi-professional gaming youth, survival status, career paths
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Wang,Z. (2025). The Dilemma and Breakthrough of “Gaming Dream”: A Study on the Survival Status and Career Path of Semi-Professional Gaming Youths. Advances in Social Behavior Research,15,33-36.
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