University of Twente Student Theses
The role of identification during a war scenario
Praet, Y.W.J. van (2023) The role of identification during a war scenario.
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| Abstract: | World war 2 videos games, there exist many of them, with large fanbases, games as for example Call of Duty 1, Battlefield 1 and Medal of Honor. But what do people feel when being in such a scenario? What if you are the person accountable for the death of your troops, how do you act? In this thesis we looked at how people write a letter to the family of a deceased soldier, where you as commander are accountable for. The identification with all humanity scale is used to see if there is a difference in how empathic people write a letter to the family of the deceased. This is done by the hand of three hypotheses. The first hypothesis is: Do people that identify more with their community write a more empathic letter. The second hypothesis is: Do people that identify more with their nation write a more empathic letter. The third hypothesis is: Do people that identify more with humanity write a more empathic letter. The hypotheses are answered through analysing the survey and data from the game Radio general. This thesis consists out of two parts. The written letters from radio general and the survey. In total(n=56) participants wrote a letter in the survey which is analysed in combination with the identification with all humanity scale questionnaire. In total (n =3020) letters were written by players in the game radio general and percentual compared to the survey letters. A Pearson correlation and multiple regression were used to analyse the effect between the two. The results showed that there was no significant effect between identifying with the community, nation and all humankind and the empathy level of the written letters. There was a significant difference between the letters from the survey and the letters from the game. The letters from the survey and the game were compared to real-life letters to families of deceased troops, which showed a big similarity between the letters. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Bachelor) |
| Faculty: | BMS: Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences |
| Subject: | 77 psychology |
| Programme: | Psychology BSc (56604) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/95281 |
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