Ebeveynlerin Çocuklarının Dijital Oyun Oynamasına Yönelik Dijital Ebeveynlik Davranışlarının İncelenmesi

Abstract

Bu çalışma, ebeveynlerin çocuklarının bilgisayar oyunları oynamalarıyla ilgili tutum, izleme ve arabuluculuk davranışlarını anlamayı amaçlamaktadır. Bu nitel durum çalışmasında, 30 ebeveyn 14 açık uçlu soruyu cevaplamıştır. Veriler betimsel analiz yaklaşımına göre analiz edildiğinde bulgular tutum, izleme ve arabuluculuk olmak üzere üç ana başlıkta temalandırılmıştır. Araştırmada, ebeveynlerin özellikle eğitsel oyunların çocuklarını zihinsel açıdan geliştirdiğini ve eleştirel düşünme becerilerini artırdığını, genel olarak dijital oyunların ise teknoloji kullanımını takip etme kolaylığı sağladığını ve hayal gücünü geliştirdiğini düşündüğü belirlenmiştir. Ebeveynlerin çocuklarının dijital oyun oynama sürelerini kısıtladığını, dijital oyun seçiminde daha dikkatli olmaya çalıştıklarını, eğitsel oyunlara yönelik olumlu ancak diğer dijital oyunlara yönelik ise olumsuz tutum sergiledikleri ortaya çıkmıştır. Sonuçlar, ebeveynlerin dijital ebeveynlik yaklaşımlarını yeniden gözden geçirmeleri gerektiğini göstermektedir. Dijital ebeveynlik, ebeveynlerin daha fazla dijital oyun oynaması anlamına gelmemektedir. Bunun yerine çocuklarına dijital oyunlarda karşılaşabilecekleri riskleri ve kazanımları öğretmeleridir. Bu çalışma, çocukların deneyimlerini ebeveynlerin bakış açısından incelemiş ve çocuğun dijital yaşamı açısından çocuk ile ebeveyn arasında ne kadar etkileşim olduğunu göstermiştir.

Keywords

• Dijital Ebeveynlik
• Ebeveyn Arabuluculuğu
• Dijital Oyunlar
• Ebeveyn-Çocuk İlişkisi
• Nitel Araştırma

Investigating the Digital Parenting Behaviors of Parents on Children’s Digital Game Play

Abstract

This article aims to understand the attitudes, mediating and monitoring behaviors of parents related to the digital games played by their children. For this qualitative research, 30 parents answered 14 open-ended questions. Data analyzed descriptively. The data were analyzed with respect to the research questions and the analysis showed that the findings could be grouped into three themes: attitudes, monitoring, and mediating. The findings of the study demonstrated that parents thought that educational games developed their children mentally, developed their critical thinking skills, enabled them to follow up on how to benefit of those games, and developed their imagination. The research findings revealed that parents limited the time that their children spent with digital games; tried to be careful with regard to their children’s choices of digital games; and had positive attitudes toward educational games, but not others. The results implicated that parents need to raise their digital parenting approach. It should be noted that digital parenting does not mean parents to play more digital games. Instead of that it provides them to teach their children the risks and gains that may face in digital games.

Keywords

• Digital Parenting
• Parental Mediation
• Digital Games
• Parent-Child Relationship
• Qualitative Research.

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