Investigation of internet addiction and personality relationship among university students
Abstract
Aim: In this study, it was aimed to examine to internet addiction and personality relation among university students.
Material and Methods: Totally 527 students, studying at Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart university participated to this study as a volunteer. Internet addiction scale and Eysenck personality scale were used to collect data. Kruskal Wallis was used to investigate differences between groups and Pearson Correlation was also used to investigate the relation between variables in SPSS. Findings were accepted at p<0.05 level.
Results: Total internet addiction scores of participants were 26.85±14.41 point, %94 of them were average internet user. It was determined that they are mostly connected the internet from the mobile phone (%58), 5.8±1.8 days a week and 4.7±3.0 hours a day, and that they mostly use social network and chat sites (%30). There were statistical differences between departments (p<0.05). The internet addiction score of students of Faculty of Science and Literature, School of Health and Theology was significantly lower than other sections. internet addiction scores were higher in males (p<0.05). In terms of personality characteristics of participants, it was found that they had a higher score (3.9±1.8) in the "Outward Turnover". It was determined that there is a statistically positive relationship between internet addiction score and Neurotism, Psychotism but the negative relationship with the "Lie" personality sub-dimensions.
Conclusion: Internet dependency score was found low in this study. Although this is a desirable situation, it would be useful to ensure participation of students in the recreational activities to protect this situation.
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Details
Primary Language
English
Subjects
Sports Medicine
Journal Section
Research Article
Authors
Fatih Özgen
This is me
ÇANAKKALE ONSEKİZ MART ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Türkiye
Özhan Bavlı
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ÇANAKKALE ONSEKİZ MART ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Türkiye
Publication Date
December 15, 2017
Submission Date
June 30, 2017
Acceptance Date
October 10, 2017
Published in Issue
Year 2017 Volume: 3 Number: 4
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