Internet Addiction Among Turkish Primary School Students.

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    • Subject Terms:
      HIGH school students; ANALYSIS of variance; PSYCHOLOGICAL tests; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCALE analysis (Psychology); SELF-evaluation; INTERNET addiction; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
    • Subject Terms:
      TURKEY
    • Abstract:
      The main aim of this study is to investigate prevalence of Internet addiction among Turkish primary school students. Data was collected from 710 primary school students. The results showed that 600 (84.5%) students showed no symptoms, 101 (14.2%) students showed limited symptoms; and 9 (1.3%) students were identified as Internet addicted group. The findings also suggested that students feeling free and hiding their identity while online indicated more Internet addiction tendency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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