Psychological research on gaming + Fallout 4: GOTY giveaway - Update - Last 24 hours

I had a quick look at the first page of questions and didn't like how they were worded, so I didn't proceed any further.
A couple of them are vague (you can't just choose where on the scale to answer them), and a couple of them I felt were interrogative, rather than actual genuine questions.
I don't know about anyone else who ends up taking the time to fill it out, this was just my experience.

Anyway, good luck.
Unfortunately, nothing is truly anonymous online, thanks to google :)

These are very leading questions, but I suppose that's a part of the underlying method of the research.

I had the same feeling than Mayanaise. I also had some problem with the purple variants since English is not my native language. I did finish it though. Hope it helps.

Someone used a synonym site for "purple".

Nah, sorry, but a psychological questionary shouldn't look like you are being judged.

I feel a sensation of bad thoughts that I need to step back from.

Judging by the comments above, OP must be a member of Vault-Tec.

Not gonna take a look :X

I wonder if the true psychological research project is to deliberately design a poorly-worded survey, and then examine the comments that are made about it...

Finished <3 already have Fallout 4 though but I figured I would help out.

completed the survey. interesting basis for a dissertation, good luck to her!

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That was an interesting survey. I own the game, so I won't enter the giveaway. Thanks!

As a veteran survey/quiz-taker (I've been taking everything from "Which anime character are you?" quizzes to online IQ tests to paid psychological surveys--the kind where I get paid, I mean--for well over a decade), I thought it was actually pretty standard for a survey, even if the questions were unique rather than the same copy-pasted crap I tend to see everywhere. (Thank you for that, BTW. It was refreshing.) However, just like most of those surveys, and like most of the others in this thread, I do think that some of the questions are too vague, possibly implying different conclusions about the respondent than the respondent themselves might intend. For example:

Victims generally have trouble staying out of harm’s way.
I answered "mildly disagree", because to me, the statement seems to blame the victim for being a victim, which I don't...usually. (If they're a victim because they did something stupid, then...) But I'm also a snarky little ****, so I couldn't answer "strongly disagree" because I thought, "Well, yeah, otherwise they wouldn't have become a victim." It's not their fault, but if they ended up in harm's way, then obviously they couldn't stay out of it, right?

If people leave their belongings around, it is their fault if someone steals them.
I mean, if you know it's a possibility that someone will steal your stuff, it is pretty dumb not to keep an eye on it. Doesn't mean I think the thief is right, just that you shouldn't have left it unattended.

When I lose in a game or I have not obtained the desired results, I need to play again to achieve my target.
Well, yeah. Otherwise you'll never achieve your target. :P (This is more of a grammar nitpick. A better way of wording this statement would be: "I can't stop playing until I achieve my target." Or, if obsession isn't the angle this statement is going for, but commitment/perseverance, then perhaps, "I don't give up until..." or even simply, "I try again to...")

Also, on the questions on page 3, rather than definitive yes/no statements, a frequency scale (always/sometimes/never) would probably be better--because, using that last statement as an example, sometimes I try dozens of times in a row to accomplish something, sometimes I'll try a few times and walk away for a bit, and sometimes I'll try once or twice and decide it's not worth my time.

I completed the survey. The questions were very redundant and, yes, pretty leading. I understand that that's how it's done, but it was... hm. I don't know how to put it in words. It doesn't exactly put one at ease to answer honestly. 'Are you present in the moment and do you have a healthy relationship to video games, or have you not ever been to therapy and self-examined before?' The second set of questions, about moral viewpoints on things, also weren't fun to answer. A lot of times, I agreed with the sentiment but not the reason, and then was stuck on how to actually answer. Like, YES I think Y, but not because of X, I think Y because of Z.

Best of luck to your friend's dissertation!

Considering the fact that this survey is ostensibly being used to gather data for psychological research, it would seem counter-productive to limit the field of respondents to such a narrow category as "SG users who read this post," if that is indeed what you are actually doing. I hope not.

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I learned that crimson isn't a purpleish color.

Damn, that english was very diffucult to understand :-D
But anyway it's done for me

This is psychology research huh? Well that explains a lot 😳

Don't know if you will receive results you can work with, if you get people to take part in the survey just to have a chance getting fallout 4. Maybe this fact alone is part of the survey. Nevertheless i didn't take part in it, because of the leading questions.

I'm not a fan of this survey, either; it seems like the sort of thing that politicians use to demonize video games for society's ills. Reading most of the questions, it seemed like they were designed to elicit specific responses to lead readers of the thesis to the conclusion that video games are evil drugs that rot people's minds and make them into violent criminals. I also have OCD, which would've colored the responses inappropriately; yes, "I don’t pay attention to what I’m doing because I’m daydreaming, worrying, or otherwise distracted," but it's because I have OCD that causes me to fixate on things, and not because video games have destroyed my attention span.

i forgot to mention the last part when it asks you how many hours you play a day..
weekends are typically very different for me so maybe ask average in a week or total in a week in estimate

The wording is kinda ambiguous. For example:

There is no reason to fine those who draw ‘‘graffiti” on walls since others commit much more serious acts of vandalism.

I would agree under the interpretation that i actually like graffiti, so for me drawing stuff on walls is not vandalism as long as they're not random gibberish or doodles. But i don't agree under the interpretation that there are much more serious acts of vandalism: the existence of a worse problem doesn't make the first one any less important.

Young people cannot be considered guilty if they smoke a joint since most adults use much stronger drugs.

Again, my interpretation would be that it's fine to smoke a joint once in a while because is a vice like another and really not that important, but i would disagree under the guise that, like above, people doing worse stuff doesn't automatically entitle you to do less "important" shit.

I have tried to control, cut back or stop playing, or I usually play with the video games over a longer period than I intended.

Depending on the interpretation, "tried to control etc." can mean that i have a problem with managing playtime or that i actually don't have a problem and don't need to reorganize it.

Also i'm finding myself answering 1 to almost all gaming-related questions, since they're pretty leading.

Well as others have noted, this survey does seem to hint at the hypothesis that games either lead to psychopathic/sociopathic behavior or attract people with the corresponding psychological abnormalities. This is unfortunate.
I would hope that someone seriously researches the correlations of gaming with intelligence, creativity, decision making and problem solving abilities. And not the usual "games are violent and most gamers are psychos" cliche. I hope I'm wrong about your research though.