Addiction, Alcohol, Anxiety, Depression, Drugs, Nicotine, Personality
Conditions
Brief summary
The aim of this project is to find out if there is a difference in addictive behavior, personality traits, and cognitive abilities between chess players and non-chess players.
Detailed description
In the present planned study, tournament chess players will be compared with non-tournament chess playing individuals by means of an online survey. Among other things, the investigators want to investigate whether these groups of persons differ in various characteristics such as their consumption behavior (alcohol, tobacco, and drug use), their personality, their depressiveness and mood, or their cognitive abilities. The background is the question whether playing chess could be protective against substance use disorders or could mitigate the manifestation.
Interventions
None listed
Sponsors
Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim
Study design
Observational model
CASE_CONTROL
Time perspective
CROSS_SECTIONAL
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* all persons from the age of 18 years * Inclusion in the group of chess players is based on the existence of a DWZ. * Sufficient ability to answer the questionnaires
Exclusion criteria
* None
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Alcohol Use | baseline | Alcohol Use Disorders Indentification Scale (AUDIT-C), Bohn, Babor, & Kranzler, 1995 |
| Automatic Alcohol Craving | baseline | Craving Automated Scale - Alcohol (CAS-A), Vollstädt-Klein, Leménager, Jorde, Kiefer, & Nakovics, 2015 |
| Severity of Nicotine Dependence | baseline | Fagerstrom Test of Nicotine Dependence (FTND), Heatherton, Kozlowski, Frecker, & Fagerström, 1991 |
| Automatic Cigarette Craving | baseline | Craving Automated Scale - Cigarette Smoking (CAS-CS), Tan et al., 2022 |
| Smoking Consequences | baseline | Smoking Consequences Questionnaire (SCQ), Lewis-Esquerre, Rodrigue, & Kahler, 2005 |
| Drug Abuse | baseline | Drug Abuse Screening Test (DAST-10), Lam et al., 2015 |
| Personality | baseline | NEO five factor inventory (NEO-FFI), Körner et al., 2008 |
| Depression | baseline | Beck Depressions Inventar - II (BDI-II) Kühner, Bürger, Keller, & Hautzinger, 2007 |
| Anxiety | baseline | State Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI - trait Version), Spielberger, 1983 |
| self-efficacy | baseline | Self-efficacy expectancy (SWE) Jerusalem & Schwarzer, 1999 |
| coping with stress | baseline | Brief COPE, Carver, Scheier, & Weintraub, 1989 |
| Inhibition capacity | baseline | Stop Signal Task (Sebastian et al., 2013) |
| Substance Craving | baseline | Mannheimer Craving Scale (MACS), Nakovics, Diehl, Geiselhart, & Mann, 2009 |
| Working Memory capacity | baseline | N-back Task (Charlet et al., 2014) |
Countries
Germany
Outcome results
None listed