Curse

Pia-Orcs · Jan 21, 2010, 09:46 PM // 21:46

Hello everyone,

Please help support a non-profit project of the German University of Duesseldorf!

With help of the German gamer community the University of Duesseldorf has succeeded in developing a diagnostic questionnaire which does not confuse engaged MMORPG players with so-called “addicts”. This is an important opportunity to break the stereotype of the “pathological gamer”!

After this success, we are striving to expand the project by translating our questionnaire in order to be able to provide standardized diagnostics not only nationwide, but on an international level. Please help us realize our “25QUESTions Project” by filling out our short questionnaire on

http://www.pia-orcs.de/25questions/

and by doing this, participate in eliminating the pathologization of engaged players!

This is NOT a survey: The data will solely be used in order to evaluate the characteristics of our questionnaire, which is later going to be used in clinics. At this point, the questionnaire cannot yet determine whether somebody is addicted to MMORPGs or not.

Here you can get an overview of the (good

) characteristics of our German questionnaire (in English):

http://www.piaorcs.uni-duesseldorf.d...ns_results.pdf

You can contact me through: sabine.breuing at uni-duesseldorf.de ,
for example, if you have any questions about our project, or if you are interested in supporting us by translating our questionnaire into another foreign language…

Thank you very much for your assistance!

Sabine Breuing

Abedeus · Jan 21, 2010, 09:50 PM // 21:50

January 2010, yeah, everyone will trust and send his/her e-mail to you... Also, really inventive topic. More than 90% of the people having "questionnaires" (wow, isn't a "survey" easier to write?) on guru were about the same thing - online gaming or gamer problems.

Earth · Jan 21, 2010, 10:28 PM // 22:28

Filled this out... Takes less than 2 minutes.

jiggles · Jan 21, 2010, 11:05 PM // 23:05

The time of year for the forums to get a crap-tonne of these has returned eh?

Pia-Orcs · Jan 27, 2010, 02:55 PM // 14:55

Sure it would be easier to simply make up some random questions, post them as a survey and then afterwards happily claim: "hey, look xy% of all gamers are addicted". But this would not be very scientific and just a waste of everyone's time.

I know you get spammed with a lot of surveys here and personally, I also find this annoying and think that most of them are just plain useless. But in my opinion, it makes a difference if someone collects data in a survey (and claims, in spite of a lack of standardized diagnostics, "xy% of the gamers are addicts") which later on disappear in someone’s drawer, or if – like in this project – the data are used to evaluate a questionnaire which is later on going to be used in clinics and may help patients in the long term.

And thank you to everyone who helped!