computer game addiction and loneliness in children

Background: we aimed to determine the level of computer game addiction and loneliness among 9-10-yr-old children. methods: the study was conducted with 4th-grade students at a primary school, located at the city center, during 2017-2018 academic years. there was no sampling in the research, all 4th-grade students of the school were reached. “personal information form”, “computer game addiction scale” and “ucla loneliness scale” were used for collecting data. mann whitney u test, kruskal wallis test, and correlation analysis were used to evaluate the data of the research. results: 50.7% (n=104) of the students were female, most frequent number of sister/brother was one 39.0% (n=80), both their mother 31.7% (n=65) and their father 34.1% (n=69) were mostly high school graduated. the average scores that students got from the scales were; 48.66±.27.02 (min.: 21.00, max.: 105) for “computer game addiction scale” and 40.55±8.50 (min: 22.00, max.: 64) for “ucla loneliness scale”. a weak, positive and significant relationship was found between students’ loneliness scale scores and computer game addiction scale scores (r=0.357; p<0.000). conclusion: a significant relationship was found between students’ computer game addiction and loneliness. it is suggested to perform children’s loneliness and computer game addiction assessments, evaluate effectiveness and establish a rehabilitating treatment system among school-hospital-family for abnormal cases.