Abstract
The aim of this study is to determine the prevalence of Internet addiction and to evaluate the associated factors and critical thinking disposition among high school students. The students from different high schools constituted sample group which was determined by simple random sampling of probability sampling method. The main objective of this research is to investigate Internet addiction and critical thinking disposition in terms of various variables. In addition, the relationships between Internet addiction and critical thinking disposition have been explored. Descriptive survey model out of scanning models was used in the research. 204 high school students were participated in the study, Young's Internet Addiction Scale, Critical Thinking Tendency Scale and sociodemographic questionnaire are applied to the students, the groups were classified as Internet addiction, risky Internet usage and average Internet usage according to the Internet addiction test. Thus, the groups were compared with each other with respect to sociodemographic factors via statistical analysis. Keywords: Internet addiction, critical thinking, high school students.
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