Effects of computer games on the socialization process and inclination to violence of teenage students?

Understanding the effects of the frequency and habits of teenage students? playing computer games on their socialization process and inclinaiton to violence, finding solutions for possible negative results are basic aims of the research. For this research, students of sixth, seventh and eighth grade of a private establishment preparing students for various exams in Umraniye, county of İstanbul, have been chosen as sample student group.The study consists of four parts.The first part and the second part are theoretical, the third part is practical. In the first part fact of violence is discussed in detail according to macro and micro aspects. In the second part adolesence, socialization and concepts of games are focused.In the third part (practical one) as it is more appropriate to evaluate the results of the survey with the proportion of percent, frequencies are transformed into charts with the help of SPSS 13.0 programme. After that, hypothesis, which are introduced with the analysis technics at the beginning of the study, are tested. The fourth part allocated argumentation and interpretation of results.Questions of the survey are configured in four parts. In the first part demographic characteristics of participants, in the second part the frequency and habits of teenage students? playing computer games, in the third part teenage students? way of spending their free time and the effects of computer games on it, in the fourth part students? attitude to violence and again effects of the computer games on it are the subjects of the questions.As two influences are searched in the study, questions are tried to be sufficient to introduce the two factors. The survey consisting of 33 questions (including personal questions) is applied to 250 students.At the end of the study, effects of the computer games on the socialization process and their prone to violence of teenage students are stated and proposals for solution are developed.