Survey: Videogames and Violence (for a class)

[Hawgh]

1. Age:
2. Gender:
3. How often do you play videogames?
4. What genres?
5. Have games ever made you angry when playing them? (ex. Rage quit, swearing)
6. Have games ever made you physically violent when playing them? (ex. harming the controller)
7. Have games ever made you angry when not playing them? (ex. thinking about them affected your actions)
8. Have games ever made you physically violent when not playing them? (ex. thinking of them affected your actions)
9. How often do you engage in violent behavior?

Thank you very much!

1. 22.
2. Male.
3. On a daily basis.
4. Primarily RPGs, arcade games, strategy and first persons.
5. Yes.
6. No.
7. The sheer variety of "Truck Driver Simulator" games I recently happened opon caused me considerable anguish.
8. No.
9. Very rarely.

 

[Larmo]

1. Age: 22
2. Gender: female
3. How often do you play videogames? 4hs a day on average
4. What genres? FPS, RPG, casual, adventure, puzzle, mutliplayer
5. Have games ever made you angry when playing them? If the level or activty is frustrating or the game glitchy, but i don't rage quit much
6. Have games ever made you physically violent when playing them? No
7. Have games ever made you angry when not playing them? No, but i do think back in the day and think if i should have done something different
8. Have games ever made you physically violent when not playing them? No
9. How often do you engage in violent behavior? Not often, I'm not a violent person

 

[FirstOne617]

1. 18
2. Male
3. A couple hours a day, unless I'm really busy with schoolwork or something.
4. FPS, RPG, Fighters, Action
5. I've been frustrated by games sometimes, usually when I get stuck, but never really angry.
6. No.
7. No.
8. No.
9. Never.

 

[The Unworthy Gentleman]

1. 16
2. Male
3. 2-4 hours weekdays, 4-7 weekends. Vary depending on mood, work, social life and whether my brother is playing.
4. RPG, F/TPS, Sandbox, Action-adventure, Arcade, Browser
5. Yes, quite often. Usually caused by dis-satisfactory game mechanics.
6. Yes, on occasion. Only ever due to dis-satisfactory game mechanics.
7. No, never.
8. Also never.
9. Again, never.

You are very welcome.

 

[Weemulator]

1. 19
2. Male
3. Daily
4. Pretty much anything (I tend to get bored of playing one genre a lot) but mainly RPG's
5. Yes when I get into really difficult areas I can't beat or the dreaded autosave just before dying I tend to swear.
6. Occasionally slam my fist on the couch but that's about it
7. Nope
8. Nope
9. Never

 

[OldAccount]

1. Age:
18

2. Gender:
male

3. How often do you play videogames?
An hour or two a day.

4. What genres?
FPS, Music, Beat em' ups, Action, Puzzlers, platformers

5. Have games ever made you angry when playing them? (ex. Rage quit, swearing)
Multi-player games have left me frustrated on occasion. Perhaps a bit of cursing. Nothing major.

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 (I'm more of the passive-aggressive type)

Thank you very much!

Happy to oblige!

I'm interested to read some of these responses myself =)

 

[dark-amon]

1. Age: 22
2. Gender: Male
3. How often do you play videogames? Often. Probably more than 4 hours 6 days a week.
4. What genres? Platformers, RPG, Action adventure etc.
5. Have games ever made you angry when playing them? (ex. Rage quit, swearing) Only at high difficulty or when insulted at multiplayer.
6. Have games ever made you physically violent when playing them? (ex. harming the controller)I punch a pillow when situation mentioned over ocur.
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 the past 4 years.

 

[leon3789]

1. Age:17
2. Gender:male
3. How often do you play videogames? Very often
4. What genres? Shooters, RPGs, almost any of them
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) Yes
7. Have games ever made you angry when not playing them? (ex. thinking about them affected your actions) Nope
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 videogames? Never

 

[The_Echo]

1. Age: 17
2. Gender: Male
3. How often do you play videogames? Often. At least a little bit everyday. Usually more.
4. What genres? Doesn't really matter, as long as it's a good game.
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. I don't want to break my controller.
7. Have games ever made you angry when not playing them? (ex. thinking about them affected your actions) No. What kind of logic is that?
8. Have games ever made you physically violent when not playing them? (ex. thinking of them affected your actions) No./b]
9. How often do you engage in violent behavior? Not often. I've only ever actually harmed my little sister, but never in a major way, and only ever when she irritates me past my limit, which is relatively extensive.

 

[Adijia]

1. 15
2. Female
3. a few hours a day usually, depends on how busy I am.
4. FPS, RPG, Sandbox ect.
5. Not really, Frustrated somtimes, but usually nothing.
6. Not at all
7. Nope
8. No
9. Not really.

 

[The Invisible Goldfish]

1. 16
2. male
3.daily
4.RPGs, RTSs, FPSs
5.yes
6.no
7.no
8.no
9.never

 

[SpaceSpork]

1. Age: I'd rather not disclose my age.
2. Gender: male
3. How often do you play videogames?
Every day.
4. What genres?
Sandbox, platformer, fighter.
5. Have games ever made you angry when playing them? (ex. Rage quit, swearing)
Yes. All of them.
6. Have games ever made you physically violent when playing them? (ex. harming the controller)
Nope.
7. Have games ever made you angry when not playing them? (ex. thinking about them affected your actions)
Never.
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 try to limit it to never. Last time was 3 years ago.

 

[Contun]

1. Age:
15

2. Gender:
Male

3. How often do you play videogames?
Every day.

4. What genres?
FPS' and MMO's.

5. Have games ever made you angry when playing them? (ex. Rage quit, swearing)
I've quit the game because of frustration, but never because of anger.

6. Have games ever made you physically violent when playing them? (ex. harming the controller)
Very rarely, but yeah. I've flailed my fist in the air out of anger. I was a bit ashamed at myself for succumbing to that kind of behavior.

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?
Aside from sibling rough-housing, never.

 

[Worgen]

1. Age:29
2. Gender:M
3. How often do you play videogames? everyday most of the day
4. What genres? most of them besides sports
5. Have games ever made you angry when playing them? (ex. Rage quit, swearing) yeah
6. Have games ever made you physically violent when playing them? (ex. harming the controller) yeah
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, takes a long time to really build up enough to make me rage (oh you mean physical real life stuff? never, unless you mean game rage which is maybe once a year or so)

 

[Riptide1]

1. 19
2. Male
3. way to much.. . every day for many many hours
4. Ill play anything but sports games... if i wanna play sports ill get some of my friends and go play
5. Yes but thats only ever doing online play where somebody is either cheating or just being way to good
6. i might squeeze a controller or mash a button that i didn't hit in time
7. no
8. no
9. i enjoy arguing with people and it doesn't turn violent unless they start it

 

[Blue Musician]

1. Age: 15 Years Old
2. Gender: Male
3. How often do you play videogames? When I had time I used to play every day of the week, but since I'm in two schools at the same time occupying most of my time I now play like once a week maximum, but some weeks I play nothing at all.
4. What genres? FPS, TPS, Adventure Games, Hack N-Slash, Platformers, eetc. were my favorites. I never liked RPG's.
5. Have games ever made you angry when playing them? Only online, and I have only played like 1 month for one game (COD4). I spend most of my time in Single Player, so I rarely do that.
6. Have games ever made you physically violent when playing them? Not that I'm conscious about.
7. Have games ever made you angry when not playing them? When I used to play them for far too long yes.
8. Have games ever made you physically violent when not playing them? Never
9. How often do you engage in violent behavior? Cannot really think about it. I do get violent thoughts though, but I guess that's because I am traumatized so I have been getting those thoughts even before I played games, so it may not really influence in that respect.

 

[oppp7]

1. Age: 19
2. Gender: male
3. How often do you play videogames? daily
4. What genres? all of them
5. Have games ever made you angry when playing them? (ex. Rage quit, swearing)
VERY YES.
6. Have games ever made you physically violent when playing them? (ex. harming the controller)
A few times.
7. Have games ever made you angry when not playing them? (ex. thinking about them affected your actions)
A few times.
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?
Only when playing games, actually...

 

[Assassin Xaero]

1. Age: 19, 20 on the 27th.
2. Gender: Male
3. How often do you play videogames? Daily, at least.
4. What genres? Mostly FPS, but also RPG, JRPG, skateboarding, puzzle games, action, horror, etc.
5. Have games ever made you angry when playing them? Yeah.
6. Have games ever made you physically violent when playing them? A few times.
7. Have games ever made you angry when not playing them? Nope.
8. Have games ever made you physically violent when not playing them? Nope.
9. How often do you engage in violent behavior? Rarely to never. I do punch stuff at work sometimes, but that is how I learned to open it...