@article{article_366800, title={THE INVESTIGATION OF THE RELATIONS BETWEEN STUDENTS’ATTITUDES TOWARD THE NATURE OF TECHNOLOGY AND PROBLEMATIC INTERNET USAGE}, journal={The Eurasia Proceedings of Educational and Social Sciences}, volume={5}, pages={289–293}, year={2016}, author={Teke, Aziz and Sahin, Ismail and Sadi, Ozlem}, keywords={Nature of technology,problematic internet usage,negative consequences of the internet}, abstract={<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;line-height:normal"> <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language:EN-US">The purpose of the present study was to explore the relevance between the sub-dimensions of the instrument for assessing students’ concepts of the nature of technology scale developed by Pey-Yan Liou and the sub-dimensions of problematic internet usage scale developed by Ceyhan, Ceyhan and Gürcan. The instrument for assessing students’ concepts of the nature of technology scale consists of six sub-dimensions named technology as artifacts, technology as an innovative change, the current role of technology in society, technology as a double-edged sword, history of technology, and technology as a science-based form. The problematic internet usage scale consists of three sub-dimensions named negative consequences of the internet, social benefit / social comfort, excessive usage. In this quantitative research survey design was used. Data in this study were collected from a total number of 365 students studying at four different high schools. In accordance with the analyses carried out in this study suggestions were made for practical and research studies. <o:p> </o:p> </span> </p>}, publisher={ISRES Publishing}