The Relationship between Problematic Internet Usage in Students of Faculties of Health Sciences and Parameters of Locus of Control and Emotional Intelligence.

Background: "Controlling internet usage", which is investigated in scope of problematic internet usage, may also be discussed in terms of locus of control and emotional intelligence. Aim: This study aimed to determine the relationship between problematic internet usage in students of faculties of he...

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Published in:International Journal of Caring Sciences Vol. 12; no. 3; pp. 1607 - 1616
Main Authors: Derya, Yesim Aksoy, Okyay, Esra Karatas, Ucar, Tuba, Karakayali, Cigdem
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Published: International Journal of Caring Sciences Sep-Dec2019
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          Derya, Yesim Aksoy
          Okyay, Esra Karatas
          Ucar, Tuba
          Karakayali, Cigdem
        affil: Associate Professor, Department of Midwifery, Faculty of Health Sciences, İnonu University, Malatya, Turkey
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          Students, Medical Psychosocial Factors
          Internet Addiction
          Locus of Control
          Emotional Intelligence
          Human
          Student Attitudes
          Descriptive Statistics
          Social Networks
          News
          Motion Pictures
          Text Messaging
          Internet Searching
          Shopping
          Games
          Pornography
          Questionnaires
          Scales
          Coefficient alpha
          Summated Rating Scaling
          Loneliness
          Pearson's Correlation Coefficient
      ab: Background: "Controlling internet usage", which is investigated in scope of problematic internet usage, may also be discussed in terms of locus of control and emotional intelligence. Aim: This study aimed to determine the relationship between problematic internet usage in students of faculties of health sciences and parameters of locus of control and emotional intelligence. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted with 1004 students of the faculty of health sciences. The data were collected by a "Personal Information Form", the "Online Cognition Scale (OCS)", the "Rotter Internal-External Locus of Control Scale (IELCS)" and the "Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire (EIQ)". Results: It was found that the student's mean time of internet usage was 58.50 ± 113.49 minutes and 82.1% were online mostly in between the hours of 16 and 24 o'clock. The reasons for using the internet were listed in order as: obtaining general information / reading the news (94.5%), research about education / homework (90.8%), listening to mp3 files / watching movies / downloading software (88.8%), social networks / making friends / chatting (84.6%), surf / entertainment (77.9%), e-mail / communication (62.8%), shopping (57.9%), gaming (50.1%), banking operations (37.4%), financial information (26.5%), games of chance / betting (14.3%) and pornography (8.1%). There was a weak and significant relationship in the negative direction between the total and all sub-scale scores of OCS and the total scores of IELCS and EIQ (p<0.05). Conclusions: It was determined that as problematic internet usage increased in the students, their total scores of internal-external locus of control and emotional intelligence levels decreased.
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