@article{Kaplan Sayı_Şahin_2021, title={Examination of gifted students’ Internet / game addiction and school social behaviors}, volume={11}, url={https://www.pegegog.net/index.php/pegegog/article/view/1377}, DOI={10.47750/pegegog.11.04.04}, abstractNote={<p>Internet and games can have some adverse effects if used unconsciously. Especially for gifted students, internet and games can be risky and result in addiction due to their cognitive and social characteristics. Since the game and internet addiction conduce to social problems as well. In this vein, the purpose of the study is to examine the internet and game addiction levels of gifted students and their school social behaviors in terms of certain socio-demographic variables. In addition, the relationship between computer addiction scale scores and school social behavior scale scores are also examined within the scope of the study. Descriptive correlational survey method is used in the study. The sample is comprised of 157 gifted students and 16 teachers of them. Convenient sampling was used in the study. In conclusion, internet and game addiction scores of the gifted boys in the study were higher than those of girls. On the other hand, in terms of school social behaviors, the findings showed that gifted girls achieved higher scores than boys. Additionally, it is also observed that gifted children aged 10 and over got higher scores from internet and game addiction while the School social behavior did not show a significant difference according to the age variable. As the internet and game addiction scores of the gifted children increased, their school social competence, weakened. On the other hand, it was seen that the increase in the gifted children’s internet / game addiction led to an increase in their antisocial behaviors.</p>}, number={4}, journal={Pegem Journal of Education and Instruction}, author={Kaplan Sayı, Ayşin and Şahin, Filiz}, year={2021}, month={Oct.}, pages={33–43} }