An examination of the relationships between attachment styles of adolescents utilization of internet social communication networks and communication skills

The main purpose of this research is; to analyse the relations between adolescents? attachment styles and usage of internet social communication networks and communication skills. Furthermore, in this poject, it is intended to look over whether the adolescents? connection styles and communication skills differ significantly according to their sex, age, parents? education, internet usage length and pupose.Overall 427 students, 188 female and 239 male, participated in the study group. Tools used for the research are; Pesonal Information Form, Survey For The Adolescents? Social Communication Network Usage, Communication Skills Scale and Relationship Scales Questionnaire. In order to analyse the datum, Multiple Regression Analysis, One Way Anova and T Test were used.As a result of the research; adolescents? attachment styles and communication skills differ significantly according to their sex, age, parents? education, internet usage length and pupose.Consequently, sub-dimensions of interpersonal relations methods and sub-dimensions of connection styles together predicts 11% of the total variance of mental variable communication skills, 12% of the total variance of behavioral variable communication skills and 9% of the total variance of emotional variable communication skills.Keywords: Attachment, internet, social network, communication.