Boys in both Turkish and British samples spend more time playing videogames than girls¶

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Subclaims¶

q2 i? Boys in both the Turkish and British samples spent significantly more time playing videogames than girls; Turkish boys also played traditional games more, but British boys and girls did not differ on traditional games. → Yılmaz 2022

Evidence¶

Yılmaz 2022¶

Yılmaz, E., Yel, S., & Griffiths, M. D. (2022). Comparison of children's social problem-solving skills who play videogames and traditional games: A cross-cultural study. Computers & Education. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2022.104548

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Chi-square analyses of self-reported daily play time in the two samples found boys played videogames significantly more than girls in both cultures; the article reports "no significant difference was found among the British children (χ2=6.95, p>0.05)" for traditional games.

"the boys in both the Turkish sample (χ2=54.79, p<0.001) and British sample (χ2=32.87, p<0.001) spent significantly more time playing videogames than girls."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• British children spend more daily time on videogames while Turkish children spend more on traditional games — related
• Action-adventure videogames negatively predict social problem-solving scores while simulation, puzzle, serious and educational videogames predict positively — related
• Action and role-playing videogames are most preferred and simulation and puzzle least preferred in both cultures, with culture-specific traditional game preferences — related