26Jul 2017

INTERNET ADDICTION AFFECTING FACTORS OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN TURKEY.

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The aim of the research is to reveal the affecting factors that the internet addiction of university students in Turkey. The sample of the research consists of 1203 students and 677 of them are female and 518 are male students and 8 of them missing. Two private two state university in Istanbul and Gaziantep. According to the findings of the first question of the research; the prevalence of internet addiction of university students in Turkey is medium level. Regarding the frequency of internet use, 61 (20.9%) students stated they use internet daily, 89 (30.5%) 2 or 3 days per week, 80 (27.7%) once a week, and 88 (30.1%) once a month. The students spent time as online 5.8 hours per week. Online activities of the students were checking e-mail 75.3%, playing online games 51.7%, chatting 51.7%, educational information searching 51.4%, purposeless web surfing 42.8%, and others 6.8%. Additionally, 30.5% of participants had more than 3 years of internet experience.

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[Itır Tarı Comert, Seda Ugras and Emel H?lya Y?kseloglu. (2017); INTERNET ADDICTION AFFECTING FACTORS OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN TURKEY. Int. J. of Adv. Res. 5 (Jul). 1736-1742] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com

Seda U?ra?
University of ?stanbul

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Article DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/4894      
DOI URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/4894

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