Role Playing Game: profile of the RPG player

• Grant number: 08/05276-6
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: February 01, 2009
• End date: April 30, 2010
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Medicine - Psychiatry
• Principal Investigator: Dartiu Xavier da Silveira
• Grantee: Dartiu Xavier da Silveira
• Host Institution: Departamento de Psiquiatria. Escola Paulista de Medicina (EPM). Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus São Paulo. São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Role Playing Game (RPG) can be defined as a group gambling activity characterized by the verbal dramatizing of a fictitious character. This study aims to investigate if the RPG player has a risky behavior for pathological gambling and related psychiatric conditions. Furthermore, assuming a potential risk for mental problems, it will be necessary to define limits between normal playing and pathological gambling. (AU)