Pokémon GO Gaming Motivation Scale
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Below are several motives for playing Pokemon GO. Using the 1 - 7 scale below, indicate whether each of these motives is unimportant or important to you.
1 – Absolutely unimportant
2 – Unimportant
3 – Rather unimportant
4 – Neither unimportant, nor important
5 – Rather important
6 – Important
7 – Extremely important
1. Chatting with other players
2. Learning about stories and lore of the Pokémon GO world
3. Becoming powerful
4. Staying outdoors during the gameplay
5. Being part of a team
6. Feeling immersed in the Pokémon GO world
7. Catching rare Pokémon and Acquiring rare items
8. Initiating physical activity while playing
9. Grouping with other players
10. Exploring the Pokémon GO world just for the sake of exploring it
11. Optimizing your character as much as possible
12. Potential health benefits of this game use
13. Keeping in touch with your friends
14. Creating a background story and history for your character
15. Competing with other players
Scales are computed as follows (with no reversals of coding):
Socializing: 1, 5, 9, 13
Immersion: 2, 6, 10, 14
Achievements: 3, 7, 11, 15
Health: 4, 8, 12
This scale is reliable with Cronbach's Alphas ranging from .77 to .85. It has been validated as predictive of Pokémon GO gaming time, Pokemon GO related physical activity and outdoor time.
Reference for this scale is:
Kaczmarek, L. D., Misiak, M., Behnke, M., Dziekan, M., Guzik, P. (2017). The Pikachu Effect: Social and Health Gaming Motivations Lead to Greater Benefits of Pokémon GO Use. Computers in Human Behavior, 75, 356-363.
This scale is an extenstion and modification of Online Gaming Motivation Scale (Yee, N., Ducheneaut, N., & Nelson, L. (2012). Online gaming motivations scale: development and validation. In: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 2803-2806).