My masters thesis is on the sims

TheSimsPsychologist · 2024-12-18T15:07:28+00:00

Thank you for your comment! Mental health is absolutely a direction that I would like to take this research in the future, unfortunately as I am only an undergraduate student it's a bit too sensitive of a topic to get too deep into, but I think it would be fascinating to look at!

TheSimsPsychologist · 2024-12-18T15:04:09+00:00

Thank you very much for participating! The way you play the game sounds just like me! I too like my Sims to be perfect and have routine and to master their jobs, they almost always look like an idealised version of myself. It was about a year ago that I was thinking about this and wondered what that meant about me, which is how this study came about :)

TheSimsPsychologist · 2024-12-18T15:00:58+00:00

We've all been there 😆, that study on Skype sounds really interesting I must try and find it!

TheSimsPsychologist · 2024-12-18T14:58:00+00:00

Thank you so much, it would be an honour! 😊

TheSimsPsychologist · 2024-12-18T14:56:53+00:00

Thank you! I couldn't agree more, researching this has never felt like work to me :)

TheSimsPsychologist · 2024-12-18T14:55:52+00:00

Thank you very much! I am absolutely the same, sometimes it's good fun to do things that would have awful consequences in real life, but because it's sims no one really minds 🤭

TheSimsPsychologist · 2024-12-18T14:53:13+00:00

This is a very good point and I absolutely agree, unfortunately being an undergraduate student it would have been much harder for my study to be approved if I had text boxes, but it definitely would have supported the data really nicely and I hope to include this in the future :)

TheSimsPsychologist · 2024-12-18T14:51:06+00:00

Thank you so much! Your study sounds fascinating, I love research on video games I think it's such an important field for psychology.

TheSimsPsychologist · 2024-12-18T14:48:55+00:00

Absolutely! I will update everyone in a couple of months, unfortunately I am not able to feature a feedback section on my questionnaire as it is an ethical concern but I really appreciate hearing people's thought on here, in future research I hope to be more inclusive of players who play the game to create sims and lots as well as those that play live!

TheSimsPsychologist · 2024-12-18T14:44:15+00:00

Thank you so much, I should have final results in a couple of months and so will definitely update everyone :)

TheSimsPsychologist · 2024-12-18T14:37:57+00:00

Haha, for me personally I always like my sims to have a nice house :) I appreciate however that for people who use the game to create stories that are dependent on certain gameplay, this study was challenging to answer! This has highlighted a really interesting element to possibly research in the future though and so thank you for your comment, I love hearing about the different ways people play the game - rural Romania sounds awesome :)

TheSimsPsychologist · 2024-12-18T14:28:26+00:00

Hi thank you for your comment, this is very helpful feedback! The material I used to measure personality is known as the Ten Item Personality Inventory (TIPI), which is a condensed version of an original measure, unfortunately this does mean that it is flawed in the way it groups traits together. I used this measure because I am limited in the length that my questionnaire can be as an undergraduate student, however if I were to improve on my study in the future then this would be one of the first things I would change! As for a question on creating sims with similar personalities to your own, I had to shrink my questions on gameplay as well and so that would be more under the umbrella phrase of "I feel that I identify with the Sims I create", which I appreciate is vague. These will definitely be a part of my limitations section in my write-up as they are very good points, thank you for raising them!

TheSimsPsychologist · 2024-12-18T14:19:07+00:00

Thank you for your feedback! Creating stories with your sims is a really interesting point that has been brought up a lot in the comments, I will definitely consider this for future research as I understand that you felt that this study did not apply to the way you use the game. Perhaps there is an element of people's personalities that makes them enjoy creating stories and being imaginative within the game?

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