The relationship of technology addiction in adolescents with attitudes of parents and emotional intelligence

The aim of this study is to determine the relationship between parent attitudes and emotional intelligence in adolescent technology addiction. Each participant included in the study filled in the Socio-Demographic Information Form, Technology Addiction Scale (PBS), Bar-On Emotional Intelligence Scale (Child and Adolescent Form) and Parent Attitude Scale. The program SPSS 22.00 was used to analyze the data. Results; at 95% confidence interval and p <0.05 significance level. The study sample comprised 2000 high school students in total, 1183 females and 817 males. In the study, it was found that there is a substantial negative relationship between technology addiction and social networking, instant messaging, using websites, playing online games and the scores obtained from the parent attitude's acceptance / care component and control sub-dimensions. A significant and negative relationship has been identified between the sub-dimensions of technology addiction and emotional intelligence, intra-individual, interpersonal, adaptation, stress control and the general state of mind. It was found that there is a meaningful relationship between the control sub-dimension of the parent attitude scale and emotional intelligence. In addition, there was a significant difference between gender and emotional intelligence levels. Key Words: Parent attitude, emotional intelligence, puberty, technology addiction