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We also want to see if there is a correlation between personality type and social support both in the online world and the offline world. Internet users, who communicate their inner world online, will rely heavily on the internet for advice and information to help them understand their personal problems offline. Additionally, they also are the ones who frequently receive guidance and assistance from fellow users (Lueng & Lee, 2005). The rich-get-richer hypothesis, assumes that primarily extraverted adolescents use the Internet for online communication. Socially anxious adolescents turned less to the Internet than non-socially anxious adolescents, supporting the rich-get-richer hypothesis (Valkenburg & Peter, 2007). Those are just two examples of the numerous studies involving social support and personality.
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I love these studies. They are so flawed and one-sided. O hai thar! Were going to do this study see, and instead of going out and doing real research and testing, were just going to get these 40 year old virgins who play Warcraft and ask them a bunch of questions!
lol
From my experience, both personal and otherwise. Ive been on the internet since the 90s... before that it was just computers. And my own observations is that the most extroverted people are the less likely ones to have a great understanding of the net, they can use it sure, but they dont know the ins and outs. The introverted (shy) folks are the ones with huge websites, blog stuff daily or even hourly. They chat for hours, are very social in any mmos they play. In otherwords, not being able to see the people they are talking too, they are able to open up a lot more.
I fall into the introverted category. You can get just about anything out of me, and draw me into discussions, debates and arguements that I would never get into in person.
Do some real research, then go and make up your questions.
Also. this person admitted to using this "study" to add to the claim that video games are bad... why are they coming here to a place where gamers are, if they want make us look like dysfunctional knuckle-draggers? Go find some fundie site that thinks video games are satanic.
AND another thing... surveys that are using the rarely-sometimes-often-always model are fundamentally flawed as they lack any option of neutrality. Because the "sometimes" option still leads you into well I still do it, but only once in a while. It needs a "no opinion" type of answer. Or just do a fill in the blank.