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Today I conducted the third and final draw. A huge thank you to everyone who has participated in the study so far, and even huger thank you to the 128 people who have now completed both questionnaires at least twice! The winning de-identifiers in the 3rd draw are: 909623 535494 973434 387780 714508 390360 681444 277894 857670 427439 496112 330047 292816 724400 393302 355600 828865 237136 898211 245615 I have sent e-mails the winners who have provided their e-mail address when entering the draw. If your ID is on this list but you have not gotten an e-mail from me, please contact me through the contact form under the "contact" tab at the top of the page. Congratulations to all winners! The results will be published here once I am ready to do so.
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The website has finally been updated, and everyone who has participated at least ~ 3 months ago can now start their 2nd or 3rd participation (and enter the draw for 20 x NZ$50 held in September) in the surveys tab! As reminder for everyone else: It is not too late to participate! The study runs until September 2019 and you can participate anytime before then. There is one more draw in September. Hello everyone,
Today I conducted the second draw. Thus far, a total of 453 people have completed both questionnaires at least one. A huge thank you to everyone who has participated in the study so far, and even huger thank you to the 23 people who have now completed both questionnaires twice! Keep in mind, everyone can participate again by completing both questionnaires again at least three months after their previous participation. The winning de-identifiers in the 2nd draw are: 194331 581361 243105 835247 262053 540221 343418 567941 909623 648202 580107 805592 944406 176715 390803 932229 330255 215717 110292 498080 I have sent e-mails the winners who have provided their e-mail address when entering the draw, but one winner hasn't. If your ID is on this list but you have not gotten an e-mail from me, please contact me through the contact form under the "contact" tab at the top of the page. Congratulations to all winners, and I look forward to everyones' next participation three months after you completed the surveys the last time! The next and final draw (everyone can enter who has completed all questionnaires between now and the next draw) will be at the beginning of September. Hi all,
The website has finally been updated, and everyone who has participated at least ~ 3 months ago can now start their 2nd participation (and enter the next draw for 20 x NZ$50) in the surveys tab! As reminder for everyone else: It is not too late to start participating! The study runs until September 2019 and you can participate anytime before then, up to once every three months. There are two more draws, one in May, and one in September. Hi all,
I apologise for the delay. Due to technical difficulties the draw had to be postponed to today. For those who care about the numbers, during the time before the first draw I got a total of 163 participants who completed both questionnaires! Thank you very much to all participants, including those who only completed one of the two questionnaires; your responses help me verify the instruments, and if you should participate again I can still compare your longitudinal data. Now to the probably more exciting stuff. A total of 67 people entered the draw for the vouchers. The winning IDs are: 376702 270699 400197 727596 552612 478729 757888 932751 632013 277350 698171 527265 362194 574289 176715 364610 461766 540221 379671 153583 I have sent e-mails the winners who have provided their e-mail address when entering the draw, but two winners haven't. If your ID is on this list but you have not gotten an e-mail from me, please contact me through the contact form under the "contact" tab at the top of the page. Congratulations to all winners, and I look forward to everyones' next participation three months after you completed the surveys the first time (for some of you that means you can participate again from March on)! The next draw (everyone can enter who has completed all questionnaires between now and the next draw) will be at the end of May. I have finally set the date for the first draw of 20 times NZ$ 50.
The first draw will be held on the 17.02.2019 (NZ time), and the winning de-identifiers will be listed on the website shortly afterwards. Wellbeing, or well-being, is a fairly difficult topic. The Greeks distinguished between two main kinds of wellbeing: hedonic - focused on feeling happy in the now -, and eudaimonic - focused on feeling one has a satisfying life.
Interestingly, when researchers nowadays measure "wellbeing", they often actually only consider aspects of ill-being, such as depression or loneliness (and the absence thereof). Measuring wellbeing is difficult and the concept itself is contested in psychology, because "happiness" or "satisfaction" are rather subjective experiences. A very promising related approach to work around that subjectiveness comes from Self-Determination-Theory. The main (well researched) assumption is that all people have three basic needs - the needs for competence, autonomy, and relatedness. It is important to note that while according this theory all people have these same three needs, people can experience them differently. The degree to which these needs are satisfied or frustrated influences essentially how satisfied a person is with their life, and in this theory is a main motivational driver behind behaviours. Besides this concept being useful for estimating wellbeing, it is especially interesting in the context of computer games, as games might serve as way to satisfy some or all of these needs. The other part of the wellbeing questionnaire is a well-established survey intended to determine a person's wellbeing on a very general scale. More information on and references for the needs scale can be found in Chen, B., et al. (2014). Basic psychological need satisfaction, need frustration, and need strength across four cultures. Motivation and Emotion, 39(2), 216-236. doi:10.1007/s11031-014-9450-1. Personality has been a topic of interest to people for quite a while and is still a controversial concept. Most of us have will have encountered some sort of personality type questionnaire before (cool, I am a rose, she is a lily, and he is... a bulbasaur?) However, most of those tests have not much use besides being entertaining. Psychology has in general mainly moved away from the concept of type-tests during the past 50 years or so (the only exception being the Myers-Briggs test, which assumes 16 different types and is based on theoretical assumptions about how people experience the world around them).
Instead of type-models psychology currently mainly uses so called "trait"-models. The assumption here is that there are some sort of characteristics on a continuum that can be used to - on a very general level - describe all peoples' behaviour. The two main accepted models are the "Big Five Personality" model and the "HEXACO" model (both are very similar and have significant overlap, but there is disagreement about whether 5 or 6 factors are more appropriate). The relevant point is that studies have shown that the factors (which have been identified using repeated large-scale studies) seem to be relevant in all cultural contexts, are long-term stable after the age of about 12 to 16 years, and have significant predictive power when explaining various other variables. These are the reasons why the model is accepted and used in various contexts in psychology. The factors referred to by the Big Five (spelling out OCEAN) and what they contain are: Open-Mindedness - Intellectual Curiosity, Aesthetic Sensitivity, Creative Imagination Conscientiousness - Organisation, Productiveness, Responsibility Extraversion - Sociability, Assertiveness, Energy Level Agreeableness - Compassion, Respectfulness, Trust Neuroticism - Tendency for Anxiety, Depression, and Emotional Volatility According to the model all people can be described by their levels on the continuum of each trait. Considering these individual and independent scores is seen as more appropriate than trying to fit people to set types. More information on the model and other citations can be found in Soto, C. J., & John, O. P. (2017). The next Big Five Inventory (BFI-2): Developing and assessing a hierarchical model with 15 facets to enhance bandwidth, fidelity, and predictive power. J Pers Soc Psychol, 113(1), 117-143. doi:10.1037/pspp0000096 In this case the title is very descriptive: The questionnaires for my main study are now online and should be fully set up (with in-page hyperlinks, conditional questions, randomly generated numbers, an optional contact list to receive reminders, and an automated results/score section).
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