Determination of the relationship between the adolescent's problematic internet usage behaviour and their life staticsfaction

Developing technology has succeeded to draw the attention of people in todays world. Computers, Mobile Phone and Internet marks an new era in world wide social interaction . When solving the needs of the people, it could lead to negative consequences in the senseless uses. Problematic internet use has a negative effect people's development in young ages. Excessive and uncontrolled usage of those technologies effects life satisfaction beside their individuals and the environment problems. In this study, we examined the relationship between problematic Internet usage behavior and life satisfaction of adolescents. Basically, the research was carried out with quantitative methods. In this reseach, "PİKO-E" (Problematic Internet Usage Scale which is developed by Ceyhan, E., Ceyhan, A.A. & Gürcan, A.) and "Life satisfaction scale" (Diener, Emmans, Lorsen ve Giffin'in (1985) are used as quantitative data collection tool. The sample of research is 2014-2015 academic year secondary 294 school students of Gungoren district. In our reseach, our sample was İzzet Ünver and İmam Hatip High Schools' first (9), second (10), third (11) and fourth (12) grade students. We gather the data's by using PİKO-E form ( Problematic Internet Usage Scale) and Life Satisfaction Index. Also in our research we used SPSS 17 statistical program to reach the correlation, t-test, F-test, ANOVA and TUKEY tests to analyze the sample data's. According to the survey, we reached the result that when Internet usage time and growing the class, problematic Internet usage increases. High socio-economic levels students or the students who uses the Internet at home or the students who have less siblings have life satisfaction higher than others. Experimental researches should be conducted about positive or negative affects on self-esteem of problematic Internet usage and life satisfaction students. It can be advised to make periodically researches to gain the benefits in order to reduce the risks associated with the students' lives, to determine students personality's, attitudes of parents' and social environment's influence on life satisfaction by the school guidance teachers.It can be benefitable on life satisfaction to provide support and positive approach to organize the guiding events. KEYWORDS: Problematic Internet usage, Adolescent, Life satisfaction, Internet usage