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Ezgi Pelin Yildiz; Metin Çengel – International Education Studies, 2024
Social media has often started to be used as the first source for accessing information. Country agenda, general issues, research, new ideas, entertainment, shopping, instant communication and cooperation are the positive contributions of social media. Excessive use of social media in every aspect of life certainly causes harm. It causes serious…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Media, Addictive Behavior, Young Adults
Demir, Fatima Betül; Öteles, Ülkü Ulukaya; Koçoglu, Erol – Educational Research and Reviews, 2023
The concepts of digital obesity and digital literacy, which are interconnected in influencing human beings, can find their place in all areas of life with the virtualized life industry in the globalizing world. Having these competencies, awareness can be explained by the orientation process between these concepts and the individual. In this…
Descriptors: Addictive Behavior, Digital Literacy, Foreign Countries, Predictor Variables
Ömer Düzenli; Feray Ugur-Erdogmus; Özgen Korkmaz; Recep Çakir – International Journal of Technology in Education, 2023
This mixed-methods study examines high school students' self-confidence, social media use, and internet addiction. The data were collected from 340 high school students in Samsun during the 2019-2020 academic year. Participants completed self-confidence, internet addiction, and social media use scales, and interviews. Descriptive analyses,…
Descriptors: Social Media, Internet, Addictive Behavior, Self Esteem
Servet Erkol; Sabit Mentese; Murat Gökalp – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2024
Addiction is the state of being addicted to any activity, substance, object or behavior in a way that excludes other activities of one's life or causes physical, mental or social harm to oneself and others. In addition to many and various types of addiction, it seems that an important type of addiction is technology addiction. Today, the dizzying…
Descriptors: Addictive Behavior, Middle School Students, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices
Töre, Özlem; Karabacak, Sercan – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2022
Regular physical activities, called exercise, have an important role in maintaining both physical and mental health. However, some researches have shown that exercise done at uncontrollable rates can be harmful and cause addiction. The study adopted survey method and aimed to examine the exercise addictions of the students in the Faculty of Sports…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Exercise, Student Behavior, Physical Activity Level
Ayyildiz, Erdem; Besler, Hamza Kaya – Journal of Educational Issues, 2022
Determining young athletes' sleep quality and social media addiction is important for their performance. For this reason, our study aims to examine elite athletes' sleep quality and social media addiction. There are three parts to the research. The first part consists of demographic information. In the second part, the social media addiction scale…
Descriptors: Social Media, Addictive Behavior, Sleep, Athletes
Saglam, Suleyman; Bozkus, Kivanc – Online Submission, 2023
This study aimed to identify the problems experienced by middle and high school administrators and to compare the solution methods they applied for these problems. The research was conducted with the participation of 10 school administrators working in the Hopa district of Artvin province. The phenomenology design, one of the qualitative research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Administrator Attitudes, Principals, Problem Solving
Özge Pinarcik Sakaryali; Nur Banu Yigit – International Journal of Modern Education Studies, 2024
This study explores the relationship between social media addiction, mental wellbeing, and emotional states among Early Childhood Education (ECE) candidates. Utilizing a sample of 330 ECE students from Düzce University and Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat University, the research employed the Social Media Addiction Scale-Adult Form, Positive and Negative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Media, Addictive Behavior, Mental Health
Dagli, Ecem Seray; Esme, Yasin; Gezgin, Deniz Mertkan – Online Submission, 2021
The aim of the study is to investigate the relationship between social media usage behaviors of primary school teacher candidates and their social media addiction levels. The study was designed using relational screening model. The study group is composed of 230 primary school teacher candidates from the education faculty of a state school in the…
Descriptors: Social Media, Addictive Behavior, Preservice Teachers, Student Behavior
Topal, Temel – Educational Research and Reviews, 2021
The aim of this study is to investigate the internet addiction levels of high school students using various variables. The research consists of a total of 962 students (452 girls and 410 boys) studying at different high schools in Giresun in the fall semester of the 2019 to 2020 academic year. The research data were obtained using the general…
Descriptors: High School Students, Internet, Addictive Behavior, Predictor Variables
Koc, Mustafa; Tunc, Rasim – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2021
E-sports games have recently become a popular internet game especially among young people and are played at a professional and amateur level. The effect of replacing traditional games with such digital games on the development of children and young people is hotly discussed among the parents and educators. This study aims to investigate…
Descriptors: Video Games, Competition, Internet, High School Students
Koc, Mustafa; Tanrikulu, Cagri – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2021
Intense Internet use, which disrupts people's daily routine responsibilities and disrupts the quality of life, points to the problem of Internet addiction (IA). This problem is more common among youngsters. Especially university students who move away from family surveillance and have more access to the Internet are in the high risk group.…
Descriptors: Internet, Addictive Behavior, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes
Yaman, M. Sibel – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2020
The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between recreation department students' Facebook addiction and free time satisfaction levels and to determine whether they differ according to certain variables. 212 Turkish students, 108 males and 104 females studying at the Faculty of Sport Sciences Recreation Department in the 2018-2019…
Descriptors: Social Media, Addictive Behavior, College Students, Foreign Countries
Lozano-Blasco, Raquel; Cortés-Pascual, Alejandra – Comunicar: Media Education Research Journal, 2020
Widespread use of the Internet in 21st century society is not risk-free. This paper studies the comorbidity of some problematic uses of Internet with depression in order to assess their correlation. With that aim, a meta-analysis of 19 samples obtained from 13 different studies (n=33,458) was carried out. The subjects of these studies are…
Descriptors: Internet, Depression (Psychology), Adolescents, Cultural Differences
Hazar, Zekihan – Asian Journal of Education and Training, 2019
The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between digital game addiction and the motivation for digital game-playing, and to develop suggestions towards the solution of the research problem through the relationship between these two concepts. The study is designed according to the quantitative research method and the relational…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Addictive Behavior, Motivation, Elementary School Students