The investigation of feeling stuckness and smartphone addiction in sport sciences students (gender difference approach)

Abstract

The aim of this study is to examine the feeling of being stuck and phone addiction levels of student participants in Manisa Celal Bayar University Faculty of Sport Sciences. The study group of the research consists of 97 female and 193 male students from Manisa Celal Bayar University Faculty of Sport Sciences. Personal information form prepared by the researcher, Smartphone Addiction scale and Feeling Stuck scale were used as data collection tools in the research.SPSS 25.0 package program was used in the analysis of the data. Independent T test was used for pairwise comparisons, one of the parametric tests for normally distributed values, and One Way Anova test was used for more than two encounters. In addition, Pearson correlation analysis was used. A significant difference was found in the comparison of smartphone addiction scores between genders (p<0.05). In addition, it was found that there was a positive and significant correlation between the participants' feelings of stuckness scores and their smartphone addiction scores (p=0.01). According to the results, female students have a higher prevalence of smartphone addiction compared to males. Additionally, the study found that smartphone addiction exacerbates the feeling of being "stuck" often associated with depression.

Keywords

• University Students
• Feeling of Stuck
• Smart Phone Addiction
• Deppresion

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