Table 3.

Means, standard deviations (SD), possible/actual range, t-/U value and significance (p) for differences in means between the control participants and WoW group for the variables gaming experience (years), online gaming hours per week, GAIN, s-IAT, OGAS, WoW-SPUQ and BIS-11.

	Control group		WoW players		Possible range	Actual range	t-/U value	p
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Male participants
Gaming expertise (years)	9.49	6.81	14.29	4.85	–	0–22/6–25	− 3.369	0.001
Online gaming hours per week	1.18	2.11	19.71	11.44	–	0–9/0–50	30.0	< 0.001
GAIN	450.77	39.10	443.04	54.30	0–900	370–510/305–525	0.678	0.500
s-IAT	21.67	6.53	23.79	6.90	12–60	12–42/14–41	− 1.280	0.205
OGAS	8.67	2.39	15.79	5.85	7–35	7–17/9–29	94.5	< 0.001
WoW-SPUQ	–	–	87.57	23.26	27–189	–/53–134	–	–
BIS-11 total	65.00	13.39	64.63	8.94	30–120	40–99/53–90	0.125	0.901
BIS-11 attentional	17.13	4.95	16.57	2.85	8–32	8–30/12–21	0.579	0.565
BIS-11 motor	23.16	4.81	22.43	3.66	11–44	14–35/16–33	0.671	0.504
BIS-11 non-planning	24.71	5.32	25.74	4.77	11–44	14–40/16–40	− 0.803	0.425
Female participants
Gaming expertise (years)	3.86	5.76	11.50	5.29	–	0–15/1–20	− 4.557	< 0.001
Online gaming hours per week	0.09	0.43	17.56	9.06	–	0–2.5/1–37.5	1.5	< 0.001
GAIN	429.74	39.98	439.06	58.72	0–900	330–510/295–510	− 0.678	0.501
s-IAT	18.58	4.99	21.44	5.24	12–60	13–36/14–30	199.5	0.047
OGAS	7.11	0.51	13.50	3.69	7–35	7–10/9–21	4.0	< 0.001
WoW-SPUQ	–	–	81.63	22.42	27–189	−/50–119	–	–
BIS-11 total	61.25	9.14	61.73	6.16	30–120	37–87/53–77	− 0.187	0.852
BIS-11 attentional	16.61	3.55	17.06	3.38	8–32	10–25/10–22	− 0.438	0.663
BIS-11 motor	21.08	3.93	21.80	3.97	11–44	12–31/17–29	− 0.592	0.557
BIS-11 non-planning	23.97	4.16	23.31	2.70	11–44	13–35/17–27	0.584	0.562

Note: Mann-Whitney-U-Test was conducted for comparing the means of non-normally distributed variables. Results are depicted in italics in the table.