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The Correlation between High School Students Loneliness Levels and Smart Phone Addiction

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Teenagers usage of technology is getting increased day by day and so is the usage of smart phones. This development that makes daily lives easier can cause some problems at times. The usage of smart phone can be transformed into an addiction that can be described like internet addiction. Therefore, in this study it is aimed to reveal the correlation between high school students loneliness levels and their smart phone addiction. The study group of the research is made up with 540 high school students, who were randomly selected from state and private high schools in Ankara in 2014-2015 education year. Two different data collecting tools were used in the study. One of them is Smart Phone Addiction Scale, which was adapted into Turkish by Demirci, Orhan, Demirdaş, Akpınar and Sert (2014) and the other one is UCLA Short Form of Loneliness Scale, which was adapted into Turkish by Yıldız and Duy (2014). According to research findings, the students smart phone addiction and loneliness levels are in medium level. There is a significant and positive correlation between smart phone addiction and loneliness.

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Loneliness , smart phone addiction , problematic phone usage , high school students , adolescents

Mersin University Journal Of The Faculty Of Education

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