Personality Traits, Gender, Frequency of Internet Use as Predictors of Turkish Teenagers' Internet Addiction

Autor/in	Günaydin, H. Deniz
Titel	Personality Traits, Gender, Frequency of Internet Use as Predictors of Turkish Teenagers' Internet Addiction
Quelle	In: Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 20 (2021) 4, S.44-52 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Günaydin, H. Deniz)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2146-7242
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Personality Traits; Gender Differences; Incidence; Internet; Addictive Behavior; High School Students; Adolescents; Predictor Variables; Turkey; Big Five Inventory + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Geschlechterkonflikt; Vorkommen; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Prädiktor; Türkei
Abstract	In the current study, the associations between personality traits including extroversion, neuroticism, conscientiousness, agreeableness, open to experience, gender, frequency of Internet use, and teenagers' Internet addiction were explored. Participants in the study were 409 teenage high school students (289 female, 120 male:13 to 18 years old) in Turkey. The participants completed the Demographics Questionnaire prepared by the authors, the Big Five Inventory and Young Internet Addiction Test -- Short Form to collect the research data. It was found out that FIU, neuroticism, conscientiousness and agreeableness explained 29.8% of the variance in adolescent Internet Addiction. Neuroticism was the most significant variable linked with teenagers' Internet addiction. However, gender (male vs female), extroversion and openness to experience were not significant predictors of teenagers' Internet addiction. At the end of the paper, the limitations were stated and suggestions for future studies were made. The research findings emphasize the significance of teenage Internet addiction in terms of teenagers' personality traits. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Sakarya University. Esentepe Campus, Adapazari 54000, Turkey. Tel: +90-505-2431868; Fax: +90-264-6141034; e-mail: tojet@sakarya.edu.tr; Web site: http://www.tojet.net
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01