Internet Addiction and Related Psycho-Social Variables: An Analysis Regarding Alexithymia

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dc.authorid0000-0002-8118-4547en_US
dc.contributor.authorArcan, Kuntay
dc.contributor.authorYuce, Cagla Begum
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-12T21:53:58Z
dc.date.available2024-07-12T21:53:58Z
dc.date.issued2016en_US
dc.departmentMaltepe Üniversitesien_US
dc.description.abstractIt was aimed to investigate the relationships of self-esteem, loneliness, social support, and alexithymia with Internet addiction in this study. It was expected that the psychosocial variables of the study that were utilized together in this study due to their possible common connections with social skill and online communication preference would be associated with Internet addiction. Moreover, it was hypothesized that alexithymia would be associated with Internet addiction after controlling for the effects of the other psycho-social variables, gender, and Internet usage duration. Thus, it was aimed to test the increased role that has begun to be attributed to alexithymia in relation to the Internet addiction. The sample of the study was composed of 204 female (53.5%) and 177 (46.5%) male university students, 381 participants in total. All variables investigated in the study were correlated with Internet addiction. In line with these findings, the group composed of participants with higher Internet addiction scores, scored lower on self-esteem and social support, higher on loneliness and alexithymia as compared to the group composed of participants with lower Internet addiction scores. Moreover, self-esteem and loneliness that were entered into the equation in the second step, alexithymia that was entered into the equation in the third step following gender and Internet usage duration that were entered into the equation in the first step were associated with Internet addiction according to the results of the regression analyses. Especially internet usage duration and alexithymia were observed as robustly associated with Internet addiction.en_US
dc.identifier.endpage60en_US
dc.identifier.issn1300-4433
dc.identifier.issue77en_US
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ4en_US
dc.identifier.startpage46en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12415/8555
dc.identifier.volume31en_US
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000381067000004en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ4en_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Science
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherTURKISH PSYCHOLOGISTS ASSOCen_US
dc.relation.ispartofTURK PSIKOLOJI DERGISIen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessen_US
dc.snmzKY03676
dc.subjectInternet addictionen_US
dc.subjectalexithymiaen_US
dc.subjectself-esteemen_US
dc.subjectsocial supporten_US
dc.subjectlonelinessen_US
dc.titleInternet Addiction and Related Psycho-Social Variables: An Analysis Regarding Alexithymiaen_US
dc.typeArticle
dspace.entity.typePublication

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