Abstract
The excessive internet usage that interrupts social relations, physical characteristics and mental conditions of individuals is called as internet addiction. At the previous studies, it is reported that university students are at risk of Internet addiction due to their uncontrolled lives without families and killing their time surfing the internet. The objective of this study is to identify the addiction level of university students’ internet usage within the framework of some variables. A total of 463 students, 194 girls and 269 boys, who study at different 7 Departments of Physical Education and Sport Teaching within School of Physical Education and Sports and Faculties of Sport Sciences, attended this study in 2016-2017 Academic Years. “Personal Information Form” is used to determine the internet addiction of students “Internet Addiction Scale” developed by Young (1998) and to determine the demographic features and the data regarding the internet usage. In this study, the risk average for internet addiction of students is determined 2.55. It has been observed that the individuals who addict the internet constitute 3.9% of my samples. It is confirmed that internet addiction of male students is considerably higher than female students. It is ascertained that students who have Internet and a social media account are under higher risk of internet addiction. It has been emerged that there is no significant relation between the age/ monthly income of the family and the internet addiction level.
Highlights
In our present time, information and technology are in a period of rapid renewal
The objective of this study is to identify the internet usage addiction level of university students’ who live in Turkey and study at the Departments of Physical Education and Sport Teaching
The study has been fulfilled with 463 students who are studying at the Departments of Physical Education and Sport Teaching over 7 different universities from 7 different regions of Turkey
Summary
Information and technology are in a period of rapid renewal. This renewal has increased the use of internet (Tanrıverdi, 2012). In 2017, it has been notified that the most intensive internet users are 16-24 aged males 66.8% (91.5%) and university graduates (97%) use much internet than people (12.2%) who do not graduate any school (Tuik, 2017). Internet attracts much attention by the reason of being accessible network all over the world from different cultures and societies. Improvement of internet access speed with recent developments of technology and equipment diversity using for the access has caused significant increase at the user counts
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