Survey: Videogames and Violence (for a class)

[SecretAlienMan]

1. 22
2. Male
3. roughly 3 hours per day
4. RPG, adventure, sandbox, strategy
5. Yes, swearing and then eventually rage quit (primarily caused by JRPG's and sometimes
Starcraft)
6. Yes, I shake the controller violently and sometimes punch a pillow
7. No
8. No
9. not often

 

[Shadowsole]

1. Age: 17
2. Gender: female
3. How often do you play videogames? 20- 40 hours a week
4. What genres? Rpgs mostly (of anykind) or stratrgy, I'll play anything though
5. Have games ever made you angry when playing them? (ex. Rage quit, swearing)I have quit because a game is furstrating me but not really rage quited before
6. Have games ever made you physically violent when playing them? (ex. harming the controller) Not seriously.
7. Have games ever made you angry when not playing them? (ex. thinking about them affected your actions) Not seriously
8. Have games ever made you physically violent when not playing them? (ex. thinking of them affected your actions) again not seriously. I Have occationally hit something when talking about at hard or annoying part of a game but thats just being fun
9. How often do you engage in violent behavior? twice a year? I'n those really big fights that happen? at least seriously. I hit my friends alot (They know i'm Not trying to hurt them)

 

[Shock and Awe]

1. Age:16
2. Gender:Male
3. How often do you play videogames? Very often
4. What genres? All of them, mostly Shooters, RPG, and Adventure
5. Have games ever made you angry when playing them? (ex. Rage quit, swearing) Yes
6. Have games ever made you physically violent when playing them? (ex. harming the controller) Threw a few controllers, never anything else.
7. Have games ever made you angry when not playing them? (ex. thinking about them affected your actions) No
8. Have games ever made you physically violent when not playing them? (ex. thinking of them affected your actions) No
9. How often do you engage in violent behavior? Very rarely

 

[4484448444844484]

1. 18
2. Male
3. Daily
4. FPS, racing
5. no
6. no
7. no
8. no
9. never

 

[Bravo 21]

1. Age:15
2. Gender:Male
3. How often do you play videogames? Usually 4 or five times a week
4. What genres? Stealth, Shooter, both first person and third
5. Have games ever made you angry when playing them? (ex. Rage quit, swearing)on very rare occasions
6. Have games ever made you physically violent when playing them? (ex. harming the controller) No
7. Have games ever made you angry when not playing them? (ex. thinking about them affected your actions)No
8. Have games ever made you physically violent when not playing them? (ex. thinking of them affected your actions)No
9. How often do you engage in violent behavior? fairly infrequently, i will use foul language if someone is being a jackass, or if im feeling irate. I have also been in a few fights, either with my brother or with people at school. Most conflict im my life however, comes from sports, particularly rubgy and soccer.

Hope this helps

 

[Adventurer2626]

1. Age: 22
2. Gender: Male
3. How often do you play videogames? I'm hardwired to my computer. (5-30 hours a week)
4. What genres? (MMO)RPG, RTS, FPS
5. Have games ever made you angry when playing them? (ex. Rage quit, swearing) RPG (due to internet/computer errors/crashes; seriously, my computer is lucky I haven't hit it with a baseball bat yet), FPS (I don't get violent just hyper and faux-Tourette Syndrome)
6. Have games ever made you physically violent when playing them? (ex. harming the controller) Nah. Just the occasional fist pump of victory or feet stomping/flailing of defeat.
7. Have games ever made you angry when not playing them? (ex. thinking about them affected your actions) Well...at one point I'd been playing Left4Dead so much with my roomates a montage of zombie-shooting was burned into my retinas. Actually that's not that violent but it was a negative side affect of too much gaming.
8. Have games ever made you physically violent when not playing them? (ex. thinking of them affected your actions) Nope.
9. How often do you engage in violent behavior? Outside of what I mentioned: never. I think I must have a rage singularity in my torso somewhere. Every time I get mad without a punching bag or something around logic reminds me of the consequences of rage-breaking things. I'd either have to buy a new thing or go to the hospital and neither are that appealing to me.

 

[SideburnsPuppy]

1. Age: 15
2. Gender: Male
3. How often do you play videogames? Very often. Probably eight to ten hours a week or more.
4. What genres? JRPGs and Action/Adventures (e.g. Jak and Daxter, Ratchet and Clank), mostly.
5. Have games ever made you angry when playing them? (ex. Rage quit, swearing) Yes.
6. Have games ever made you physically violent when playing them? (ex. harming the controller) No.
7. Have games ever made you angry when not playing them? (ex. thinking about them affected your actions) No.
8. Have games ever made you physically violent when not playing them? (ex. thinking of them affected your actions) No.
9. How often do you engage in violent behavior? I'm more prone to anger than most I guess, but I can keep myself in check pretty well.

 

[duktapeman90]

1. 20
2. Male
3. More than I probably should
4. RPG, FPS, Action/Adventure... I don't really play by genre
5. Rage quit: No, Swearing: Fuck yeah
6. Occasionally I'll bruise my knuckles punching my monitor if something really B.S.-y happens (like crappy controls or something)
7. No
8. No
9. Not very often and if I do I'm usually just messing around

 

[Squirrel1328]

1. 16
2. Male
3. 10 - 12 hours a week
4. FPS, Sports, Stealth
5. Yes, Swearing
6. No
7. No
8. No
9. Only when someone starts it, not that often

 

[TheWwwizard]

1. Age: 19
2. Gender: Male
3. How often do you play videogames?At least once a day.
4. What genres? I'll play almost anything it just depends weather or not I find it fun.
5. Have games ever made you angry when playing them? (ex. Rage quit, swearing) Most of the time when I get pissed at a game I turn it off.
6. Have games ever made you physically violent when playing them? (ex. harming the controller) I kicked my PS2 once because of a stupid hard boss fight. (Broke the game but not the PS2, and I freggin loved that game.)
7. Have games ever made you angry when not playing them? (ex. thinking about them affected your actions)No.
8. Have games ever made you physically violent when not playing them? (ex. thinking of them affected your actions)No.
9. How often do you engage in violent behavior? Last time I got into anything violent was at least three years ago, if not more. (As little as possible)

 

[Tim_Buoy]

19
male
dependent on amount of free time usually 10-15 hours a week
rpg fps rts mmo beat em up fighters action adventure simulation mostly all of them
yes but never to a large degree
no
no
no
considering that i practice different forms of martial arts mostly 6-7 times a week

 

[swolf]

1. 24
2. M
3. Eh...that varies wildly. Sometimes 4 hrs a day...other days none. I got a wife, kid (she recently turned a year old), a job and other hobbies Just look at my avatar...cute, huh?
4. RPG or FPS mostly
5. Swearing (though I am not angry...it just...relaxes me. Not online btw)
6. No
7. No...the only affect on my actions would humming a song ex. Mario or (recently started) carving the characters
8. No
9. Rarely...like 1 every 3-4 years and that has been in defense of myself or someone else. I'm rather calm. EDIT: Oh...wow, we're not a bunch of psychos being trained to harm /sarcasm...go figure.

 

[ninjajoeman]

1. Age:
17
2. Gender:
male
3. How often do you play videogames?
1-2 hours a day
4. What genres?
fps,sandbox,rpg,rts
5. Have games ever made you angry when playing them? (ex. Rage quit, swearing)
It wasn't the game itself but the computer that would minimize the game. so kinda? *was 12*
6. Have games ever made you physically violent when playing them? (ex. harming the controller)
same thing basically except I would punch the wall. *again 12*
7. Have games ever made you angry when not playing them? (ex. thinking about them affected your actions)
no
8. Have games ever made you physically violent when not playing them? (ex. thinking of them affected your actions)
I can honestly say no which is surprising for me.
9. How often do you engage in violent behavior?
maybe once a year if roughhousing but other wise never.

 

[Zedayen]

1. Age:25
2. Gender: Male
3. How often do you play videogames? Every other day
4. What genres? Anything I can get into?
5. Have games ever made you angry when playing them? (ex. Rage quit, swearing) Games, yes, people, no.
6. Have games ever made you physically violent when playing them? (ex. harming the controller) No
7. Have games ever made you angry when not playing them? (ex. thinking about them affected your actions) No
8. Have games ever made you physically violent when not playing them? (ex. thinking of them affected your actions) No
9. How often do you engage in violent behavior? Excluding roughhousing with friends, rarely to not at all.

 

[Mr. Eff_v1legacy]

1. Age: 19
2. Gender: Male
3. How often do you play videogames? 10-20 hours a week.
4. What genres? Survival horror, RTS, first person shooters.
5. Have games ever made you angry when playing them? Yes.
6. Have games ever made you physically violent when playing them? Yes.
7. Have games ever made you angry when not playing them? No.
8. Have games ever made you physically violent when not playing them? No.
9. How often do you engage in violent behavior? Once or twice a week. Never towards people.

 

[Josdeb]

1. Age: 17
2. Gender: Male
3. Once a day
4. JRPG/RPG, 3rd Person shooters, Pokemon, Platformers

5. Have games ever made you angry when playing them? (ex. Rage quit, swearing)
Sometimes, but not seriously (Like, "Damn, I fell off again! Crap!" not "ARGGGGGGHHHH ********")
6. Have games ever made you physically violent when playing them? (ex. harming the controller)
No
7. Have games ever made you angry when not playing them? (ex. thinking about them affected your actions)
No
8. Have games ever made you physically violent when not playing them? (ex. thinking of them affected your actions)
No
9. How often do you engage in violent behavior?
Never

 

[kickyourass]

1. Age: 18

2. Gender: Male

3. How often do you play videogames?
Fairly regularly (A bit less so at the moment since my Xbox died on me)

4. What genres?
For the most part I enjoy any genre except for auto racing, and sports titles

5. Have games ever made you angry when playing them? (ex. Rage quit, swearing)
Sometimes, but only when I think they're being unreasonably difficult

6. Have games ever made you physically violent when playing them? (ex. harming the controller)
only once

7. Have games ever made you angry when not playing them? (ex. thinking about them affected your actions)
No

8. Have games ever made you physically violent when not playing them? (ex. thinking of them affected your actions)
No

9. How often do you engage in violent behavior?
Never, unless you count arguing with siblings, then fairly often.

Thank you very much!
Glad I could be of sevice.

 

[Agathore]

1. 19
2. Male
3. 4-10 Hours a day
4. Shooter's, Survival Horror, RPG, JRPG, Sandbox, Hack-and-Slash, Stealth, Fighter's
5. Yes
6. Yes
7. No
8. No
9. Not vary often

 

[Snotnarok]

1. Age: 24
2. Gender: Male
3. How often do you play videogames? Often, varying amounts per day. (even on the toilet, better than a magazine.)
4. What genres? FPS, RPG, Racing, Platforming, action adventure
5. Have games ever made you angry when playing them? Yes
6. Have games ever made you physically violent when playing them? No
7. Have games ever made you angry when not playing them? No
8. Have games ever made you physically violent when not playing them? No
9. How often do you engage in violent behavior? Haven't been in a fight since middle school.

 

[Skitty_McFluffernut]

1. Age 23
2. Gender Female
3. I'm a seasonal gamer, law school only allows me 1 or 2 a week, in the summer I can rack up 4 or 5 hours a day
4. FPS, Action Adventure, puzzle/strategy, survival horror
5. Yes, I'm a sore loser
6. Only to the controller, and only every once in a while
7. Nope
8. Nope
9. Never
I researched this as an undergrad. The best predictors of violent behavior have to do with socio-economic status, relationship to parents, and peer groups. Its an interesting thing to study. Enjoy.