Abstract:

The aim of this study is to study the digital gaming addictions of primary school 4th grade students in terms of various variables. The examples of the study are made by 302 students who studied in the 4th grade of 6 primary schools located in the central districts of Denizli in the 2016-2017 educational year. The research has been implemented by the researchers for the purpose of data collection the Information Technology Use Survey and the scale of Digital Game Addiction. In the analysis of the obtained data, visual statistical methods and Chaid Analysis were used. The study found that 13.9 percent of the students involved were digital gaming addicts and that the major influential variable that influences the students' digital gaming addiction was gender. In the gender variable, the frequency of playing the independent variable that explains the digital gaming addictions of boys students, while the independent variable that explains the digital gaming addictions of boys students, is the variable that uses someone else’s Facebook account.

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