masterThesis
Diferenças individuais em interação entre jogadores em League of Legends
Fecha
2017-08-14Registro en:
SANTOS, Pâmella Catherine Salles. Diferenças individuais em interação entre jogadores em League of Legends. 2017. 59f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Psicobiologia) - Centro de Biociências, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 2017.
Autor
Santos, Pâmella Catherine Salles
Resumen
One of the game genres that stands out today is the MOBA (Multiplayer Online Battle
Arena), a genre that proposes a dispute of two teams formed by 5 players each whose
goal is to conquer the enemy battlefield. However, when playing matches with people
you do not know, in addition to finding players much more on intra-group dispute than
intergroup, as proposed by the game. Therefore, the objective of this research was to
investigate traits of sociability, degree of individuality and risk propensity of the players
to seek to identify some probable elements that contribute to these observed behaviors.
The participants were students of the institution of technical and superior education of
the masculine sex. Three stages of research were constituted. The first consisted of an
online questionnaire covering sociodemographic information, game preferences and
the psychological scales used in the study. The second stage consisted of attending a
League of Legends game in a computer lab of the institution. In the third stage the
participants answered an online questionnaire informing the perceptions and behaviors
observed during the game. The matches were recorded and analyzed a posteriori, with
the proper classification of each interaction of two or more players. The results showed
that the average propensity for risk taking of the participants had an effect on the
preference of game functions. Social exchanges and cooperation behaviors were
observed from the perspective of Evolutionary Psychology. Participants who had lower
death rates in the match tended to present higher propensity for risk taking scores. In
addition, participants who perceive less a contribution of team to the outcome of the
match had higher score in Vertical Individualism, which indicates a greater desire to win
or be the best. The results may contribute to the understanding of how the expression
of individual differences express themselves in cooperative game environments.