AN EXAMINATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING AND PROBLEMATIC INTERNET USAGE OF ADOLESCENTS Cover Image

ERGENLERDE PROBLEMLİ İNTERNET KULLANIMI İLE ÖZNEL İYİ OLUŞ İLİŞKİSİNİN İNCELENMESİ
AN EXAMINATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING AND PROBLEMATIC INTERNET USAGE OF ADOLESCENTS

Author(s): Mehmet Kök, Medine Akpinar
Subject(s): Psychology, Evaluation research, ICT Information and Communications Technologies
Published by: Sage Yayınları
Keywords: Problematic internet usage; Psyhological Well-Being;

Summary/Abstract: Problematic internet usage is defined as internet addiction or pathological internet usage in psychology literature and it is a common problem that is encountered today. This problem can be considered as bringing about many negativities in the lives of the individuals, but also reducing the life satisfaction and subjective well-being levels of the individuals. Therefore, the research was conducted to investigate the relationship between problematic internet use and subjective well-being of adolescents. The sample of the study includes adolescents in Gebze, 7th and 8177th Grades. In Gebze 2017-2018 academic year, 24,199 students who were studying in 7th and 8th Grade have created 92 students selected by stratified sampling method. The number of students from 3 schools was included in the study according to simple random sampling method. In the research, "Personal Information Form", "Problematic Internet Usage Scale-PIK" and "Ergaistic Subjective Well-Being Scale" were used.The data were evaluated by frequency distribution, student test and correlation analysis.

  • Issue Year: 10/2018
  • Issue No: 40
  • Page Range: 527-538
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Turkish
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