Hey all,

I’m currently doing a master’s in counselling and psychotherapy and for my dissertation I’m looking into empathy in online gaming, with a focus on the relationship between different game modes and empathy levels. I’ve created a survey for it which takes 6 minutes on average to complete. It’s completely anonymous. If you have time to fill it out I would appreciate it! I’m using Team Fortress 2 as the example game. You must be 18 or older to participate in the survey.

Thanks to everyone who participated in the survey, the work on this will continue until August 2021.

@scaredy-bat I’m gonna use the Interpersonal Reactivity Index by Davis as a survey, I’m doing it around different modes like co-operative, competitive and mixed co-op/competitive.

I found way more studies on empathy/ aggression etc and online gaming than I thought I would for my lit review. It was pretty interesting

RIP my chances of having a sweet banner

(I appreciate the donated reps lmao)

@Iso I find it strange you’re scared of people who report bad behaviour but aren’t bothered by the people carrying out the bad behaviour.

I would ask them not to carry out the behaviour, if they persisted I would report. I don’t have to do the thought experiment. I call out bad behaviour in pubs, pugs, lobbies etc. and if it’s consistent enough I report it on all of those platforms.

His hobbies are eating and sleeping

@tide I agree! The “mute” don’t report mentality is both selfish and lazy! If you report then other people don’t have to deal with the bullshit either

Destroyed us with a sick reflected kritzkrieg on ashville advanced scrims and won his team that round. Nice guy too!

CSn Ashville highlights

I’d advise being careful if you’re arranging scrims with Live, Laugh, Love in advanced as they do cancel with short notice for another scrim they get.
(eg they asked us for a scrim last Monday and then cancelled with us today cuz they found an invite team lfs).

Also we are lfs sunday 830 now lol

@ranzo I am eternally grateful for your permission to let us finish

Thanks for your points! Yes, it’s p value. And when I looked into it at the time the advice was to say “marginal statistical significance.”

Thanks to everyone who participated! There were 54 valid responses to this study.
You can find more information on the scale used in this study and how it works here:https://fetzer.org/sites/default/files/images/stories/pdf/selfmeasures/EMPATHY-InterpersonalReactivityIndex.pdf

These are the statistically significant findings of this study:

Gender:
The t-test (0.01) indicated that there was statistical significance in the difference between male and female results in empathetic concern. Female participants had higher average levels of empathetic concern by 1.6 points. This finding is in keeping with other studies that have used the IRI to explore empathy as it relates to gender.

Casual v. League-Competitive Gameplay:
The findings of this study suggest that those who strictly play the game in a casual setting have a higher level of personal distress than those who strictly play the game in a competitive setting. Statistical significance was found with a t-test result of 0.02. Casual players had a greater level of personal distress than competitive players with a difference of 3.2 points across the average results. This indicates that those who play the game professionally, on average, have a lower tendency to feel personal anxiety in difficult interpersonal situations.

Cooperative versus Competitive game modes:
On conducting a t-test there was marginal statistical significance (t-test=0.055) found in the fantasy scale results between participants who strictly play the co-operative game mode (MVM) and those who strictly play the competitive game mode (MGE). Participants who strictly play the competitive game mode had a higher average fantasy scale result than those who strictly played the co-operative game mode with a difference of 3.6. These findings indicate that those who strictly play competitively have, on average, a higher tendency to transpose themselves into the actions and feelings of fictional characters.

Sup. I got a challenger medal for s8 highlander and today I randomly got a season 8 advanced hl medal (which I was not rostered for).

Just checking in case you sent medals to the wrong list of people or I’ve been given someone else’s medal lol

CSn’s exp cup highlights

No it’s just a funny song.

“Tbh I feel like if you’re gonna have a competitive community, you’re gonna get players that have different opinions and beliefs than others. I think if someone is with a friend group just chillin and said a slur or something anti-lgbt then they shouldn’t have to be banned from the league entirely for it. As long as they are not hurting those around them within the league or the TF2 community then leave it at that. It’s borderline discriminating against people that have different opinions.”

Idk how to quote. I am sorry. I wasn’t gonna put any opinions here but on this ONE comment, if we are talking about people using slurs specifically then this video instantly comes to mind: thisone I don’t really think slur usage is a valid “opinion.”

My team is taking a break from highlander this season and although I can’t main I’d be up for subbing for a team advanced+

I’ve played advanced medic rgl, plat medic ugc. I have 1400 hours on medic.

Thanks!

Update: I wouldn’t be able to sub on a weekly basis for a team anymore due to irl situations changing but I could still sub if there wasn’t a weekly requirement. In the case I was needed for an official I would do all scrims that week.

I’ve been interested in making a 4s team recently but didn’t want to go back to UGC.

I’ve only ever played medic in official games but I think it’d be really fun to do scout, soldier or spy at lower levels.

Hey all,

I’m currently doing a master’s in counselling and psychotherapy and for my dissertation I’m looking into empathy in online gaming, with a focus on the relationship between different game modes and empathy levels. I’ve created a survey for it which takes 6 minutes on average to complete. It’s completely anonymous. If you have time to fill it out I would appreciate it! I’m using Team Fortress 2 as the example game. You must be 18 or older to participate in the survey.

Thanks to everyone who participated in the survey, the work on this will continue until August 2021.