Capstone Project: Statement of Intent

1)The primary goal of this project is to address the issue of online gaming addiction among adolescents. I plan to do this by creating a survey-type questionnaire that adolescents will complete in order to receive an 'addiction' score based on the options they picked within the survey.
    
2) I know personally that gaming can affect not just the player, but those around the player as well. The amount of games is increasing and younger generations are being exposed to all sorts of game earlier in their lives. As proven by scientists, the way young people are thinking in today's time has changed from many generations ago because of the high use of technology. Although technology is a fantastic innovation that has helped mankind do many things, there is a limit to the amount of goodness one can do with the technology. Just like food can be good and nourishing, but too much can cause problems in the body.

3)My goals in this project definitely connect to my career path in either psychology in neurology. I'm essentially doing a study within the field itself trying to discover how gaming affects the minds of adolescents.

4)My project can give back to society by producing a way for parents to be able to easily see how affected their children are by gaming. With the knowledge the survey-questionnaire provides, the friends and family around the player will be able to become more knowledgeable about the status of the 'player', resulting in a higher ability to be able to help the 'player' should they need it.

5)This project directly affects people due to the psychology nature of the project. The data comes from people and the end product of the project will hopefully influence people to continue fighting against internet and gaming addiction.

    This project can affect the economy by possibly cutting off some of the online gaming population. However, not all people play paid games due to either pirating or by playing free to play online games, which leaves the economic reaction to this project in question.
  
   The project, in all reality, will probably have little affect on the environment. It is a goal to affect the well-being of people, and therefore does not have much other environmental use except for the paper or technology used within the making of the project and those who use it after completion.