An Investigation of High School Students' Attitudes Toward Sports and Internet Addiction Levels
Öz
This study focuses on examining the relationship between high school students' attitudes toward sports and their internet addiction levels. A total of 598 high school students (328 females, 270 males) selected via convenience sampling method voluntarily participated in the study, which was designed in the correlational research model. In data collection, a Personal Information Form, the "Attitude Toward Sports Scale" and the "Young Internet Addiction Test-Short Form" were used. Within the scope of statistical evaluations, in addition to normality tests, Cronbach’s Alpha, independent samples t-test, One-Way ANOVA, MANOVA, and Pearson correlation analysis were utilized. The analysis results revealed that both internet addiction and attitude toward sports scores showed a significant difference according to the gender variable. While no significant difference was detected in students' internet addiction levels according to academic achievement level, significant differences were recorded in their attitudes toward sports. This differentiation was observed to be in favor of high academic achievement in the psychosocial and mental development subdimensions. Furthermore, statistically significant differentiations were recorded in the scale scores depending on active sports participation status and daily internet usage duration variables. The correlation analysis results demonstrated a negative and low-level significant relationship between students' internet addiction levels and their attitudes toward sports. These findings indicate that active participation in sports is associated with lower levels of internet addiction and points to a potential protective role that should be tested in longitudinal or experimental research.
Anahtar Kelimeler
Addiction, attitude, high school student, internet addiction, sports
Destekleyen Kurum
This study received no specific financial support from any public, commercial, or non-profit funding agency.
Etik Beyan
The study followed the ethical principles set out in the Declaration of Helsinki. Ethical approval for the study was obtained from the Ethics Committee of Ankara University (Decision No. 09/44, dated 14 September 2022).
Kaynakça
- American Psychiatric Association (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (DSM-5), 5th ed. American Psychiatric Association.
- Ajzen, I. (1991). The theory of planned behavior. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 50(2), 179-211.
- Aydın, S., Özkan, Z., Çalı, O., & Güneş, M. (2025). Düzenli spor yapan ve sedanter üniversite öğrencilerinin internet bağımlılığı ile stres algılarının bazı değişkenlere göre incelenmesi. International Journal of Sport Exercise and Training Sciences, 11(1), 106-120.
- Balyan, M., Balyan, K. Y., & Kiremitçi, O. (2012). Farklı sportif etkinliklerin ilköğretim 2. kademe öğrencilerinin beden eğitimi dersine yönelik tutum, sosyal beceri ve öz yeterlik düzeylerine etkileri. Selçuk Üniversitesi Beden Eğitimi ve Spor Bilim Dergisi, 14(2), 196-201.
- Baş, M., Tanoglu, G., & Aksu, A. (2025). Spor eğitimi alan üniversite öğrencilerinde teknoloji bağımlılığı ve spora yönelik tutumun incelenmesi. Sportif Bakış: Spor ve Eğitim Bilimleri Dergisi, 12(3), 356-373.
- Belli, E., Bedir, F., & Turan, M. (2019). Üniversite öğrencilerinin spora yönelik tutumlari ile yaşam doyumlari arasindaki ilişkinin incelenmesi. Erzurum Teknik Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, (9), 89-103.
- Biolcati, R., & Cani, D. (2015). Feeling alone among friends: Adolescence, social networks and loneliness. Webology, 12(2), 1-9.
- 8. Brand, M., Young, K. S., Laier, C., Wölfling, K., & Potenza, M. N. (2016). Integrating psychological and neurobiological considerations regarding the development and maintenance of specific Internet-use disorders: An Interaction of Person-Affect-Cognition-Execution (I-PACE) model. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 71, 252-266.
- Bryman, A. (2016). Social research methods (5th ed.). Oxford University Press.
- Cai P, Wang J, Ye P, Feng X, Yang G, Huang C, Chen X, Hambly BD, Bao S and Liang S. (2023). Physical exercise/sports ameliorate the internet addiction from college students during the pandemic of COVID-19 in China. Frontiers in Public Health, 11, 1310213. |
