The Assessment of High Schoolers’ Internet Addiction

OpenAlex · İngilizce

Today, the constant development of technology greatly increases the use of internet. With the devices that makes internet access possible getting smaller and integrated into lots of technological equipment, internet becomes accessible almost everywhere. On the other hand, this makes the internet a technology that is welcoming people of all ages rendering the space factor void. It is believed by many that the high schoolers tend to use the internet via mobile devices more compared to other groups of people the impact of which is seen obviously in their social lives, family relations and friendships. The negative and/or positive impacts that the internet has on students and their lives is an important research area. This study aims to determine whether the student group in question shows the symptoms of internet addiction. With this object in mind, the levels of internet addiction in high schoolers was researched and survey method was used to measure the levels of internet addiction in different schools. The high school students in Edirne Province, Kesan District participated in the survey which was conducted during 2013-2014 academic year.