Özet:

In this study, which investigated violence, risk taking and addiction tendency among high school students who play violent digital games, mainly the relationship between playing violent digital gameand violence tendency was examined. This relationship also evaluated according to the following variables. Gender, age, class level, number of siblings, educational level of parents and marital status, socioeconomic status, daily playing time, school success, disciplinary punishment and the idea of seeing digital games as indispensable part of life are the variables. As a data collection tool, The Tendency to Violence Scale, Game Addiction Scale for Adolescents and personal information form were applied to the participants. According to the results of the study, it was found that male students were more prone to play addiction and violence tendency than female students (p=0.01). It was found that the students who had a disciplinary punishment, who played digital and violent digital game and think that it is indispensable, and whose father’s education level was high school or below, had a higher tendency to violence than the other students (p=0.01). No significant differences observed between students' level of violence tendency; class level, mother education level, year of playing game and marital status of parents. In the study, it was observed that male students played violent games at a higher level than female students, whereas female students did not play games at a higher rate than male students (p=0.01). When the rates of violent game playing were examined, it was found that children of mother’s who has a bachelor’s degree played violent games at a lower rate (p=0.02). Also it was found that age and father education level did not make a significant difference in violent games playing. In general, it was found that there was a positive but low-level strong but significant relationship between game addiction level and tendency to violence. Significant differences were found between gender, digital and violent digital game playing, and seeing violent digital game as indispensable and addictive tendency (p=0.01). There was a positive correlation between the increase in daily playing time and addiction tendency (p=0.01). Finally, there was an inverse, significant, low-medium correlation between the last grade point average and all sub-dimensions of the dependency scale (p=0.01).

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