The relationship between technology addictions and psychological resilience of high school students in the Covid-19 period
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Buğra Kemal KorkutIndependent Researcher, Ordu, Turkey
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Tuğçe Peker AkmanIndependent Researcher, Ordu, Turkey
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10.58583/EM.3.2.14Keywords:
Covid-19, Technology addiction, Psychological resilience, Counselling, PsychoeducationalAbstract
It is aimed to examine the relationship between technology addiction and psychological resilience of high school students during the Covid-19 period. For this purpose, the research group of the study consists of 598 high school students, 425 (71.1%) female and 173 (28.9%) males, studying in Giresun and Tokat. The Technology Addiction Scale, the Short Psychological Resilience Scale and the Personal Information Form prepared by the researchers were used for the volunteer students participating in the study. SPSS 20.0 package program was used in the analysis of the data. Pearson Product-Moment Correlation Coefficient was used to determine the relationship between technology addiction and resilience. Independent Samples T-test was used to determine whether technology addiction and psychological resilience make a significant difference according to gender. As a result of the research, it has been determined that there are negative significant relationships between technology addiction and psychological resilience, which are the sub-dimensions of technology addiction, social network addiction, instant messaging addiction, online game addiction and website addiction. In addition, it was observed that there was a significant gender difference in the sub-dimensions of technology addiction, instant messaging, online game addiction and website addiction. It was observed that instant messaging and website addiction was higher in women, and online game addiction was higher in men. At the same time, it was concluded that psychological resilience creates a significant difference according to gender and that the psychological resilience of male students is higher than that of females.
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