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Dear BB users,

I am student of FernUniversitaet Hagen in Germany (majoring in Psychology). For my thesis I have to conduct a survey with respect to BlackBerry devices.

You could help me very much by answering here or sending me a private messaeg or an e-mail (to ). You will need max 3 minutes. If you don’t want to answer a question, just leave it unanswered (but please answer at least to no. 1 & 2).

1) Do you use the BlackBerry functionality for reading and writing e-mails at least twice per week?
Yes/no

2) Do you know the situation, when you are so absorbed in an activity that everything else gets irrelevant and you completely lose the sense of time? Would you say ...

a) when handling e-mails with your BlackBerry device:
Yes, I do experience that quite often
Yes, I do experience that from time to time
Yes, but I do experience that only rarely
No, I didn’t have such an experience
I don’t know

b) when handling e-mails with your your PC (at work or at home):
Yes, I do experience that quite often
Yes, I do experience that from time to time
Yes, but I do experience that only rarely
No, I didn’t have such an experience
I don’t know

3a) Thinking back to your last handling of e-mails with your BB device – please describe your mood and how you felt about what you were doing:
- How well were you concentrating (not at all = 0 / very much = 9)?
- Was it hard to concentrate (not at all = 0 / very much = 9)?
- Were you in control of your actions (not at all = 0 / very much = 9)?
- Challenges of the activity (low = 0 / high = 9)?
- Your skills in the activity (low = 0 / high = 9)?
- How important was this activity in relation to your overall goals (not at all = 0 / very much = 9)?
- Do you wish you had been doing something else (not at all = 0 / very much = 9)?

3b) Thinking back to your last handling of e-mails with your PC (at work or at home) – please describe your mood and how you felt about what you were doing:
- How well were you concentrating (not at all = 0 / very much = 9)?
- Was it hard to concentrate (not at all = 0 / very much = 9)?
- Were you in control of your actions (not at all = 0 / very much = 9)?
- Challenges of the activity (low = 0 / high = 9)?
- Your skills in the activity (low = 0 / high = 9)?
- How important was this activity in relation to your overall goals (not at all = 0 / very much = 9)?
- Do you wish you had been doing something else (not at all = 0 / very much = 9)?

4) Since when do you have your BB device in active use?

5) How old are you?

6) Male / female?

7) Which is your BB device (type)?

Thank you very much for your help!!!