digital game addiction scale for university students (adaptation study)

The purpose of this research is to adaptation a digital game addiction scale for university students and to contribute to the literature for the solution of this problem. the draft form of the developed scale was applied to the students between the ages of 18-22 who were studying in the faculty of sport sciences selected according to purposive sampling method. the sample group consisted of 93 female and 202 male students, 295 students in total. the obtained data were analyzed using spss 21.0 and amos 26. for construct validity, exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis were performed. fitness of the data for factor analysis was investigated by item analysis, the kaiser-meyer-olkin (kmo) coefficient and the bartlett sphericity test. kmo value was found to be ,91 and bartlett sphericity test was found to be p <.001. the reliability of the instrument was tested by the cronbach alpha internal consistency coefficient and independent t test conducted by calculating the mean scores of the top 27% (participants with high levels of measured characteristics) of the group and the sub 27% (participants with low levels of measured characteristics) of the group. the variance explained by the scale was found to be 59.61%. the results of the analysis showed that the correlation values of the factors varied between 0.58 and 0.75. according to the analysis results; the model fit indeces of the scale were; x² // sd (398/186): 2.14, rmsea: 0.08, gfi = 0.80, agfi = 0.76, cfi = 0.89, ifi: 0.89, pgfi: 0.65 and pnfi: 0.73. it is seen that the results are between the good fit and the acceptable. these results confirm the factor structure of the scale. as a result, it can be said that digital game addiction scale for university students developed within the scope of this research is a valid and reliable scale.