Do you play World of Warcraft (WoW)? If so, you are invited to participate in a study investigating where massively multi-player online role playing games fit into the current internet usage literature and the psychological factors involved in playing such games.

This research is being conducted by Jodie Logan to meet the requirements for the Bachelor of Psychology (Honours) degree, under the supervision of Dr. Anthony Miller (Department of Psychology, Macquarie University).

For full details and to participate in the study, please click on the following link:

https://macquariehs.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_553IJAnz4UEXWss

Participants who complete the survey will have a chance to win one of two AUD$50 Amazon.com vouchers. Furthermore, please feel free to advise friends, family and colleagues, over 18 years and who play WoW, of this study if you feel they might be interested in participating in the survey.

Many thanks and kindest regards

P.S. A big thanks to AusGamers for permission to post: sanctioned by trog 221214

whoa, never thought i'd see a fellow macq uni student around these parts

Yeah, your link has been abbreviated Poss (hence the ... in the middle of it) so it doesn't work.

Try putting it as an actual html link like:

<A HREF="http://your.link.here">>Click here for the survey</A>

Filling out now cause this interests me more than fixing DFS-R problems :P

Does filling out this questionnaire count as WoW getting in the way of my work since I'm at work and since I guess this is WoW related? :D

Haven't done the survey, but I love how the first page talks about WoW but then there is contact info for Lifeline and Counselling. I think we should always do that, everytime we talk about a game, leave a number for a hotline you should call to sort yourself out.

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But if the questions feel negative then just answer with a positive. Easy peasy!

8-)

I think Khel is just basically trying to warn the survey publisher of potential confirmation bias with some of the questions.

Studies don't attempt to push points of view - you pose hypotheses and then test against them impartially.

Filled it out. Do we get to see what the results are when it's done?

The results will be out in November 2012. They will be available from Dr Tony Miller but I'll also endeavour to post them online here too. Thanks for taking an interest! :)

Thankyou to everyone who has taken the time to answer the questionnaire. Your support is much appreciated! :)

Please rest assured that we're looking at general trends so if questions don't apply to you, just indicate that in your answers. Thanks again! :)

I started to do the survey and the questions started to feel like I was being to blatantly psycho-analyzed so I closed it down.

Fucking academics, go solve some real world issues.

higgs boson? Accounting? Financial planning? Economics?

Maybe you work in a community which wears hats, grows beards, holds pants up by suspenders, and the most advanced technology you have is levers and wheels, but the rest of us in the real world use studies based around things researched in university. Go cry to your little sister why a arts student analyses it's because your mother didn't love you enough.

Seriously, all you do here is cry, about valve, about study, about qld justtce, about media blackouts, legitimacy of youtube video's. You're really negative you know?

Funny thing is you're not even being analysed, you're just a statistical point. lol.

Haha, how did you know I had a little sister? Trolling aside, I'm interested in seeing what kind of conclusions the OP would draw from the survey.

Studies don't attempt to push points of view - you pose hypotheses and then test against them impartially.

I don't answer surveys any more because they are almost always inherently flawed by the subjectivity of the people who write the questions, and draw meaning from the results.