Abstract
Internet has a potential that will lead to important changes in our social life and our attitudes, behaviors and habits. Indeed, Internet seems to have started to change a number of social structures from family, friendship to business relationships (1) Internet serves many purposes such as information transfer, academic research, entertainment, communication and commerce. However, extremism in terms of time is observed other than this functional use of Internet. The aim of this study is to assess the recreational use of Internet by research assistants off-duty or off-education according to several variables (gender, civil status, educational level, duration of leisure time, fields, perceived income and perceived leisure time sufficiency, participation in scientific projects, capability of accessing Internet anywhere). 400 research assistants who worked in state universities in Ankara (Gazi, Hacettepe, METU, and Ankara) in the spring term of 2014-2015 participated to the research. The data collection tools are the Personal Information and the Addiction Profile Index Internet Form (BAPINT). BAPINT is about the recreational use of Internet off-duty or off-education (e.g. gaming, social media, e-mailing, websites, chat rooms, forums, etc.) Frequency and percentage calculations, t-test, One-Way ANOVA test were utilized in the analysis and interpretation of the data and the significance level was found to be 0.05 using Tukey's range test to determine the difference between the groups. Consequently, significance differences were found between BAPINT scores of the gender, civil status, educational level, duration of leisure time and perceived leisure time sufficiency variables while no significance difference was found between the BAPINT scores of the variables perceived income, participation in scientific projects, capability of accessing Internet anywhere, and fields.
Highlights
In parallel with the rapid progress in computer and communication technologies, Internet's role in how people meet all kinds of their daily needs such as work, shopping, payment, communication, education and entertainment has been increasing day by day
The aim of this study is to assess the recreational use of Internet by research assistants off-duty or off-education according to several variables. 400 research assistants who worked in state universities in Ankara (Gazi, Hacettepe, METU, and Ankara) in the spring term of 2014-2015 participated to the research
It is seen in the literature that the studies performed to this end have accelerated. Starting from this perspective, the aim of this study is to assess the recreational use of Internet by research assistants who are trained to be the scientists of future off-duty or off-education according to several variables
Summary
In parallel with the rapid progress in computer and communication technologies, Internet's role in how people meet all kinds of their daily needs such as work, shopping, payment, communication, education and entertainment has been increasing day by day. Individuals are able to access all kinds of information they need as fast as possible, instantly get informed of the developments across the world, conduct banking transactions or do shopping [2]. Internet being more accessible day by day, offering different purposes and opportunities may increase the time individuals spend on Internet and cause certain mental and physical drawbacks [3]. No consensus has been built in the literature on the terms to be used to define the Internet addiction which was considered to be a problem as of 1990s. Internet addiction [4,5], pathological Internet use [6] and problematic Internet use [7] are among the concepts frequently used to define this problem
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