AN INQUIRY ABOUT THE USE OF COMPUTER GAMES AMONG THE YOUTH

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FORGHANI M.M.; ALIZADEH M.

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Journal: QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES Year:2008 | Volume:- | Issue:38-39 Page(s): 1-29

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AN INQUIRY ABOUT THE USE OF COMPUTER GAMES AMONG THE YOUTH

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FORGHANI M.M. | ALIZADEH M. | Issue Writer Certificate

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COMPUTER GAMESQ2

YOUTHQ2

INCENTIVES OF PLAYING COMPUTER GAMESQ3

TEHRAN'S HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTSQ3

Abstract

COMPUTER GAMES have been the first computer-based medium, which their prevalence in the last decades of the twentieth century has been astonishing. In fact, this medium has slowly become a potent rival of television, and has replaced it in the leisure time activities of children and the YOUTH. This inquiry aims at studying the level of the YOUTH s use of computers. Moreover, it studies the incentives, effects and backgroundAffects of the use of COMPUTER GAMES. The method of this study was survey, and the population consisted the students of the first three years of all high schools in Tehran. Using multi-level cluster sampling, about 400 questionnaires were filled out by students.According to the findings, 80.7 percent of the respondents had been using COMPUTER GAMES, most of whom (about 46 percent) had played the games daily or some days in a week. The findings also show that among the effects and incentives influencing the respondents' use of COMPUTER GAMES were: education, releasing the restrictions of the real life, and peer group pressures. Generally speaking, those who use new media also, by and large, tend to use COMPUTER GAMES.

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FORGHANI, M.M., & ALIZADEH, M.. (2008). AN INQUIRY ABOUT THE USE OF COMPUTER GAMES AMONG THE YOUTH. QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES, -(38-39), 1-29. SID. https://sid.ir/paper/93270/en

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FORGHANI M.M., ALIZADEH M.. AN INQUIRY ABOUT THE USE OF COMPUTER GAMES AMONG THE YOUTH. QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES[Internet]. 2008;-(38-39):1-29. Available from: https://sid.ir/paper/93270/en

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M.M. FORGHANI, and M. ALIZADEH, “AN INQUIRY ABOUT THE USE OF COMPUTER GAMES AMONG THE YOUTH,” QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES, vol. -, no. 38-39, pp. 1–29, 2008, [Online]. Available: https://sid.ir/paper/93270/en

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