Özet:

This study examined the levels of empathy and aggression with the games that fourth-class students played. The study included 629 fourth-class students continuing to 12 primary schools in Istanbul. The data in the study were collected using the Child Empathy Scale (Bryant, 1982), the Aggression Scale (Shahin, 2004), the Personal Information Form and the Game Form created by the researchers. This study is a study of a type of relational scan model, which is a visual (identificative/descriptive) research model to determine the relationship between the levels of empathy and aggression based on the games that children play (Karasar, 2006). The study found that there is a positive relationship between empathy and aggression in the negative direction, the games that students play at home and the games they play in the open and the level of empathy, while the relationship between computer games and empathy is not meaningful. The level of aggressiveness between the games they play in the open air and the level of aggressiveness in the negative direction, the level of aggressiveness between the games they play in the computer and the level of aggressiveness in the positive direction, the level of fighting and war games they play in the computer, the level of aggressiveness between the games on social sites and the level of aggressiveness in the negative direction, the level of intelligence and logic games and the level of aggressiveness in the negative direction. Students have found a meaningful relationship in a positive direction between the intelligence and logic games they play on the computer and the level of empathy; the fighting and war games, the games on social sites and the level of empathy. The relationship between the students' games they play at home and the level of aggression is not meaningful. Furthermore, some kinds of game has established meaningful relationships between variables such as gender, parent-working status, brother number. Keywords: Empathy, Aggression, Game