The purpose of the study is to identify the causes and durations of cyberloafing that healthcare professionals make using their communication technologies during working hours and to raise awareness about the cost of cyberloafing to healthcare institutions. In this process, it is necessary to have a scale to measure cyberloafing durations. The population of the study is 326 healthcare workers working in Artvin State Hospital and Arhavi State Hospital, and 133 healthcare workers who agree to participate in the survey voluntarily. The scale of the questionnaire is developed based on previous studies. The scale consists of fifteen expressions other than demographic variables. The scale is validated with factor analysis and its reliability is tested and found to be appropriate with Cronbach's Alpha coefficient. Arithmetic mean for batches that are grouped in calculating cyberloafing times for each item and average. According to the findings obtained, the health workers in the sample spend an average of 203 minutes per day and 1427 minutes per week in their virtual lives in their normal lives. It performs an average of 452 minutes (7.5 hours) of this period within the weekly working hours. Cyberloafing activities that take the most time; using personal social media tools (54 minutes) and TV series, movies, matches etc. is the activity of watching programs (52 minutes). In the study, it is observed that high school graduates and men make more cyberloafing compared to other groups of education and women, respectively.
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Primary Language | Turkish |
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Subjects | Health Policy, Behaviour-Personality Assessment in Psychology |
Journal Section | Research Articles |
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Publication Date | December 20, 2020 |
Submission Date | April 16, 2020 |
Published in Issue | Year 2020 Volume: 11 Issue: Ek |