The relationship between curiosity and exploration skills and reflective thinking skills towards problem solving of social network gamers

Abstract

There is a continuing and massive interest on playing online games. Children and adults can spend several hours to play Internet based games from PCs and mobile smart phones. Internet based games can be categorised in four groups in terms of socialness and compexity. Social platforms like Facebook provide great opportunities social interactions between users like challenge, collaboration ans other domains over the games . But also social games have positive effects on cognitive, motivational, emotional, and social development too, according to literacy. But are there personal characteristics similarities of social game players. In this context the main goal of this research is to determine if there is relationship between Curiosity and Exploration skills and Reflective Thinking Skills towards Problem Solving of social network gamers. Data collected from a social game user database by 2 different scales and personal information survey. Findings and results will be presented in full text paper.