Investigating the Effects of Several Variables on University Students’ Facebook Addiction: Kastamonu University Example
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Abdulkadir Karacı
Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Zeynep PİRİ Kastamonu Üniversitesi, Türkiye
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| Dergi Adı | Kastamonu Education Journal | ||
| Makale Dili | – | Basım Tarihi | 07-2017 |
| Cilt / Sayı / Sayfa | 25 / 4 / 1547–1558 | DOI | – |
| Makale Linki | https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/kefdergi/issue/30766/332509 | ||
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| This study examines university students’ Facebook addiction in terms of several variables.The sample consists of 217 students from the departments of Computer Engineering, ComputerEducation and Instructional Technologies, Pre-School Education, Primary School Educationand Turkish Education at Kastamonu University. The Facebook Addiction Scale (FAS) was employed for data collection. As the data was normally distributed, independent samples t-testand one-way ANOVA parametric statistics for analysis. Results show that university studentsdo not show a tendency to be Facebook addicts in general. However, examining scores receivedfrom the FAS for individual students reveal that while 79.72% of the students are not addictedto Facebook, 4.15% of them are Facebook addicts. 16.13% of the students are also in therisk group. F2, F3, F5 and F6 factors and overall scores show that there is a statisticallysignificant difference between genders’ Facebook addiction. Average scores show that thelevels of male students’ Facebook addiction are higher than the levels of female students’Facebook addiction. While 8.22% of the males are Facebook addicts, the number decreasesto 2.08% for females. While 71.23% of the males are not addicted to Facebook, 84.03% ofthe females are not Facebook addicts. Males and females are 20.55% and 13.89% at risk ofFacebook addiction, respectively. The higher frequency of Facebook usage also predicts higherpossibility of Facebook addiction. A significant difference was not found between the students’departments and Facebook addiction. |
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