The relationship between children’s social skills and computer game usage in Miandoab

This study investigated the relationships among children’s social skills and computer games usage, by the analysis of their time spent on computer games, in Iran-Miandoab region primary schools in academic year of 2010-2011. The methodology of research is correlation and descriptive and it is applied from purpose viewpoint. The statistical population involves 2200 students and 237 students were selected according to Morgan sampling table. The data were collected by two questionnaire and they were analyzed by software SPSS, Spearman correlation coefficient tests. The results show that: There is a significant relationship between children’s social skills and computer games usage.

children’s social skills, computer games usage