Examination of the Relationship between Reading and Writing Attitudes and Computer Game Addiction of Primary School Students

Abstract

The basic aim of this study is to examine the relationship between reading and writing attitudes of primary school students and computer game addiction. It is also aimed to research whether or not these variables differentiate significantly in terms of gender and grade. The study group of consisted of 229 primary school students (108 females, 121 males) who were educated in Eskisehir/Turkey. In research, Reading Attitude Scale, Writing Attitude Scale and Computer Game Addiction for Children Scale were used to gather data. For statistical analysis, Pearson correlation coefficient, one-way ANOVA and independent samples t-test were used. According to the result of the research, it was concluded that there is a negative significant relationship between recreational-academic reading and computer game addiction. It was observed that there is no significant relationship between writing attitude and computer game addiction. Furthermore, while there is a significant difference between primary school students' recreational reading, academic reading, writing attitude and computer game addiction scores according to gender variable, no significant difference was determined according to grade variable.

Keywords

• Reading attitude,writing attitude,computer game addiction,primary school students

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