KARADENIZ 16TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOCIAL SCIENCES
INVESTIGATION OF THE COMPUTER GAME ATTITUDES OF PARENTS WHO HAVE PRESCHOOL AGE CHILDREN
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Academy Global Publishing House
This study aimed to examine the computer game attitudes of parents who have preschool children. This research was designed in the survey model, one of the quantitative research methods. The study group consists of 237 parents of preschool children who participated in the study voluntarily. 185 are mothers and 52 are fathers of the parents in the study group. "Computer Games Attitude Scale" developed by Yesilyurt and Demirbas-Celik (2019) was used as a data collection tool in the study. A personal information form prepared by the researchers, including variables such as gender, age, educational status, marital status, gender of the child, age of the child and house of residence, was administered to the parents. The data of the study were analyzed using SPSS 26 (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) program. Since the data showed normal distribution, independent samples t-test and One-Way ANOVA test were used in data analysis. According to the research results; it was determined that the computer game attitude averages of parents who have preschool children were low in the positive approach sub-dimension and high in the negative approach sub-dimension. While the computer game attitudes of parents showed a significant difference according to their closeness to the child, marital status, mother's age and the house they live in, it did not show significant differences based on the age of the child, the number of siblings, mother's education level, father's education level, father's age, child's gender, child's native language, child's duration of preschool education.