Investigating the Effects of Several Variables on University Students’ Facebook Addiction: Kastamonu University Example
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This study examines university students’ Facebook addiction in terms of several variables.
The sample consists of 217 students from the departments of Computer Engineering, Computer
Education and Instructional Technologies, Pre-School Education, Primary School Education
and Turkish Education at Kastamonu University. The Facebook Addiction Scale (FAS) was employed for data collection. As the data was normally distributed, independent samples t-test
and one-way ANOVA parametric statistics for analysis. Results show that university students
do not show a tendency to be Facebook addicts in general. However, examining scores received
from the FAS for individual students reveal that while 79.72% of the students are not addicted
to Facebook, 4.15% of them are Facebook addicts. 16.13% of the students are also in the
risk group. F2, F3, F5 and F6 factors and overall scores show that there is a statistically
significant difference between genders’ Facebook addiction. Average scores show that the
levels of male students’ Facebook addiction are higher than the levels of female students’
Facebook addiction. While 8.22% of the males are Facebook addicts, the number decreases
to 2.08% for females. While 71.23% of the males are not addicted to Facebook, 84.03% of
the females are not Facebook addicts. Males and females are 20.55% and 13.89% at risk of
Facebook addiction, respectively. The higher frequency of Facebook usage also predicts higher
possibility of Facebook addiction. A significant difference was not found between the students’
departments and Facebook addiction.
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