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Informed Consent

Mindfulness and Video Game Play

You are invited to participate in an on-line research study being conducted in the Department of Psychology at Grant MacEwan College. Your participation in this research is valuable because it contributes to the growth of knowledge about video game play.

Description of the Study:

The study requires you to answer a series of on-line questionnaire items. All the items deal with the degree to which you are mindful of your activities in one form or another. One of the two mindfulness scales is called “Kentucky Inventory of Mindfulness Skills” and it has 39 items. The other mindfulness scale applies the concept to game play. There are 15 items in the “Mindful Attention Awareness During Video Game Play Scale”. Your alias will also be collected in order to connect these responses to your responses on any of the other three studies available examining video game play. There are a total of 54 items in the overall questionnaire, which should take you about 30 minutes to complete. Please ensure that you have this amount of time available before agreeing to participate. If you do not have enough time, then please exit this page. You may want to come back later when you do have enough time.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the degree of mindfulness in general and while playing video games of Fragapalooza 2008 attendees or online video game discussion board participants.

Your participation is completely voluntary.

If you agree to participate in this study but encounter an item you prefer not to answer, you may skip that item and move onto the next item. You are also free to stop participating altogether by simply not answering any further items. In this case, you can immediately exit the study by closing the web page.

Protection of privacy.

Your responses to these questions will remain confidential and anonymous. Your alias will only be used to connect your responses across surveys but will not be linked to your name. Once the survey’s are connected at the end of the research data collection period, your alias will be removed. Thus for the data analysis there will be no way of knowing which answers were provided by you. This study has been approved by MacEwan’s Research Ethics Board.
Contacting the Researcher

If you have questions or concerns about this study, you are welcome to contact the researcher:

Researcher: Jayne Gackenbach, Ph.D. (Faculty member, Department of Psychology)
Office: Rm 6-394, City Centre Campus, Grant MacEwan College
Tel.: 780-633-3892
E-mail: gackenbachj@macewan.ca

1.	Please click the appropriate box if you are willing to participate and are at least 18 years of age:

	I AGREE to participate in this study. I understand that my participation is voluntary and that I am free to skip questionnaire items I do not wish to answer. I also understand that I am free to stop participating altogether.
	I DO NOT AGREE to participate in this study. I understand that my choice not to participate will be confidential and that there is no penalty for choosing not to participate.