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Purposes of Internet use and problematic Internet use among Turkish high school students

Purposes of Internet use and problematic Internet use among Turkish high school students problematic Internet use, purpose of internet Introduction: After the emergence of the Internet, the sudden increase in use, Turkish high school student its use soon attracted attention to this phenomenon. Studies have shown that there is a relationship between problematic Internet use (PIU) and the Correspondence purposes of Internet use. Bahadir Bozoglan PhD, Department of Methods: The aims of this study are to examine the purposes of Internet Psychological Counseling and Guidance, Suleyman Demirel University, Isparta 32100, use among Turkish high school students according to their gender, fre- Turkey. quency of Internet use (FIU), grade point average (GPA) and family Tel: +905353905647 income (F-income), and to investigate whether all these variables predict Fax: +902462114505 PIU. The participants in the study were 375 high school students (185 girls Email: bahadirbozoglan@yahoo.com and 190 boys), and verbal consent was obtained from the subjects before application. The participants’ ages ranged between 14 and 18 Received 17 December 2014 (Mean = 15.6, SD = 1.26). One-way analysis of variance was used to iden- Accepted 6 October 2015 tify the purposes of Internet use in terms of demographic variables. Also, hierarchical multiple regression analyses were conducted to explore DOI:10.1111/appy.12219 whether demographic variables and purposes of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Asia-Pacific Psychiatry Wiley

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Wiley
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© 2016 John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd
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1758-5864
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1758-5872
DOI
10.1111/appy.12219
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26585686
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Abstract

problematic Internet use, purpose of internet Introduction: After the emergence of the Internet, the sudden increase in use, Turkish high school student its use soon attracted attention to this phenomenon. Studies have shown that there is a relationship between problematic Internet use (PIU) and the Correspondence purposes of Internet use. Bahadir Bozoglan PhD, Department of Methods: The aims of this study are to examine the purposes of Internet Psychological Counseling and Guidance, Suleyman Demirel University, Isparta 32100, use among Turkish high school students according to their gender, fre- Turkey. quency of Internet use (FIU), grade point average (GPA) and family Tel: +905353905647 income (F-income), and to investigate whether all these variables predict Fax: +902462114505 PIU. The participants in the study were 375 high school students (185 girls Email: bahadirbozoglan@yahoo.com and 190 boys), and verbal consent was obtained from the subjects before application. The participants’ ages ranged between 14 and 18 Received 17 December 2014 (Mean = 15.6, SD = 1.26). One-way analysis of variance was used to iden- Accepted 6 October 2015 tify the purposes of Internet use in terms of demographic variables. Also, hierarchical multiple regression analyses were conducted to explore DOI:10.1111/appy.12219 whether demographic variables and purposes of

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Asia-Pacific PsychiatryWiley

Published: Dec 1, 2016

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