The relationship between play styles and learning styles of business management students

Subject Areas : Educational

mahsa moradi ¹ , khadijeh aliabadi ² , Mohammadreza nili ³ , saeed porrostaei ⁴

1 - Educational Technology at Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Associate Professor of Educational Technology at Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, Iran.
3 - Associate Professor of Educational Technology at Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, Iran.
4 - Assistant Professor of Educational Technology at Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, Iran.

Received: 2019-07-24 Accepted : 2020-06-09 Published : 2022-05-22

Keywords: play styles, learning styles, business management, Students,

Abstract :

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between Hexad player styles and Kolb learning styles. The research method was a correlation. The statistical population of the study included all students of Zanjan University in the 2019 academic year, of which 120 people were selected as a sample of research by available sampling method. To measure the variables, the Hexad player style Questionaire (Marczewski, 2016) and learning styles Questionaire (Kolb's,2005) were used. The research data were analyzed using the logistics regression method. The results of data analysis on the relationship between game styles and learning styles indicate that the social player style is predictable by divergent, pragmatic, and convergent learning styles and the direction of the relationship in these three styles is positive: divergent (p = ./05), pragmatic (p =./05) and convergent (p =. /05). Also, the results show that the Diverging learning style significantly predicts achiever player style. The direction of this relationship is negative (p = ./05); That is, people who have a higher achiever player style have a less divergent learning style. Also, the Converging learning style can significantly predict the Disrupter player style. The direction of this relationship is positive so learners who have a convergent learning style also have a Disrupter player style. As a result, the dimensions of learning styles and their components can be a good predictor of game styles.

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