Investigation of internet addiction and personality relationship among university students
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 s...
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doaj-871234872f8646669ca4823876be7bc12020-11-25T01:31:36ZengBalikesir UniversityUluslararası Spor, Egzersiz ve Antrenman Bilimi Dergisi2149-82292149-82292017-12-013412914110.18826/useeabd.324876817Investigation of internet addiction and personality relationship among university studentsFatih ÖZGEN0Özhan BAVLI1ÇANAKKALE ONSEKİZ MART ÜNİVERSİTESİÇANAKKALE ONSEKİZ MART ÜNİVERSİTESİAim: 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.https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/useeabd/issue/27196/324876?publisher=useeabdi̇nternet bağımlılığıkişiliküniversitesporinternet addictionpersonalityuniversitysport |
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Fatih ÖZGEN Özhan BAVLI Investigation of internet addiction and personality relationship among university students Uluslararası Spor, Egzersiz ve Antrenman Bilimi Dergisi i̇nternet bağımlılığı kişilik üniversite spor internet addiction personality university sport |
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Investigation of internet addiction and personality relationship among university students |
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Investigation of internet addiction and personality relationship among university students |
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Investigation of internet addiction and personality relationship among university students |
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Investigation of internet addiction and personality relationship among university students |
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Investigation of internet addiction and personality relationship among university students |
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investigation of internet addiction and personality relationship among university students |
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Balikesir University |
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Uluslararası Spor, Egzersiz ve Antrenman Bilimi Dergisi |
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2149-8229 2149-8229 |
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2017-12-01 |
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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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i̇nternet bağımlılığı kişilik üniversite spor internet addiction personality university sport |
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