Correlating Real and Virtual World Behavioral Fluctuations in Adolescence

Correlating Real and Virtual World Behavioral Fluctuations in Adolescence

The present study will explore a new approach to ongoing evaluation and monitoring of fluctuations in personality traits via commercial video games. The aim of this longitudinal study is to examine the influence of everyday life event on video games performance as a function of individual differences in gaming behavioral patterns. focusing on the ongoing performance vacillations of the patient on commercial video games will offer insights in to possibly new generation of real time assessment medium of ongoing behavior.

Inclusion Criteria:

• All subjects will have normal or corrected to normal vision with no sensory/motor disturbance
• An accessible computer at the house hold
• Previous experience in playing computer games.

Exclusion Criteria:

• drug abuse
• head injury
• living in a boarding school and a major psychiatric or neurological disorder.