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The personality of fantasy game players
Author(s) -
Douse Neil A.,
McManus I. C.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
british journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.536
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8295
pISSN - 0007-1269
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1993.tb02498.x
Subject(s) - psychology , extraversion and introversion , fantasy , personality , neuroticism , empathy , social psychology , reading (process) , developmental psychology , style (visual arts) , big five personality traits , art , history , literature , archaeology , political science , law
Players of a fantasy Play‐By‐Mail game were compared with matched controls on personality measures of decision‐making style, sex‐role, extraversion, neuroticism, empathy, leisure interests and personality type. Most players were male. On the Bem Sex‐Role Inventory the players were less feminine and less androgynous than controls. They were more introverted, showed lower scores on the scale of empathic concern, and were more likely to describe themselves as ‘scientific’, and to include ‘playing with computers’ and ‘reading’ amongst their leisure interests than controls.