Empirical study of explicit real-life motives in male gamers

Ivanova Nadezhda A. Saint-Petersburg State University

Fig. 1. Three groups of players based on motivation using discriminant analysis (canonical discriminant functions)

Table 1. Real life motives in the players of the online games World of Warships (N=1474)

Table 2. Grouping players using discriminant analysis

Groups	Discriminant function
	1	2
1. N=599	-,416	,303
2. N=234	-3,009	-,331
3. N= 628	1,518	-,166

Table 3. Explicit motives in male gamers (N=308), and male non-gamers (N=192)

Motives	M (non players)	SD	М (players)	SD
Training	4.0*	0.90	3.8*	1.00
Achievement	4.4	0.77	4.2	0.88
Cognition	4.2	0.78	4.2	0.88
Choice	4.2*	0.86	3.9*	0.99
Immersion with a special atmospere	4.1*	0.75	3.9*	0.94
Novelty	3.7*	0.91	3.5*	1.02
Perception of Something Unusual	3.8*	1.00	3.5*	1.16
Dynamics	4.2	0.73	4.2	0.87
Esthetics	3.8	1.04	3.6	0.97
Challenge	3.9	0.85	3.8	0.91
Clear Goal	3.9	0.78	3.9	0.88
Impact	3.6*	0.88	3.8*	0.94
Entertainment	4.2*	0.83	3.8*	1.05
Unexpected Situations	3.9*	0.89	3.5*	1.06
Powerful emotions	4.0*	1.01	3.5*	1.05
Feeling of something big and important	3.7	1.14	3.9	1.04
Cooperation	4.3	0.82	4.2	0.87
Profit	3.7	0.87	3.7	0.90
Communication	3.5	0.91	3.6	1.05
Mean Age	35.4	11.93	37.8	9.05

* Significance was determined using the Wilcoxon test adjusted for continuity.

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