Come join a study of the social aspects of WoW

The Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology (MSPP) is running a study on Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs). We are looking for players of World of Warcraft to fill out a survey - it takes about 10-13 minutes. The survey looks at the social aspects of people's lives in both World of Warcraft and offline, and compares them to potential signs of problematic World of Warcraft use. The study is also recruiting residents of Second Life to fill out the same survey.

These are the criteria to take this study:

• You must be a current player of World of Warcraft, or a current resident of Second Life. Current use is defined as spending 30 minutes in the past week in either World of Warcraft or Second Life. If you currently participate in both you can take the survey, but you will be asked to identify with which of the two MMOGs are you more involved at the current time.
• You must be 18 years of age or older to take the survey.

If you’re interested in learning more about the survey, click on the link below. You’ll be presented with an informed consent form to give you some more information about the study, so you can decide if you wish to take it. If you’re not interested, but might know someone who might be and who meets the criteria, feel free to forward this post to them. The survey will be open until January 5th, 2010.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/mmog_study_at_mspp

If you have any questions or comments about the study, you can contact Carmine DiChiara, the Principal Investigator, at the email address below.

Thanks for looking,
Carmine DiChiara
carmine_dichiara[at]mspp[dot]edu
Doctoral Student, Clinical Psychology
Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology

ps. If you ask about the study on this forum topic, I'll try to respond here - but I can only discuss so much while the study is going on. I also plan to post a summary of the study results on this forum topic when it's done.

BTW, I wanted to thank anyone on this forum that took the survey. I actually put the wrong date on the post - the survey had been extended until 1/10/2010. So if you still want to take the survey this weekend, feel free. But either way, thanks.

Carmine