Research on internet usage of İzmir provincial police directorate personnel according to attachment styles, personality characteristics and interpersonal conflict solving approaches

This research is a cross-sectional and descriptive study on internet usage of İzmir Provincial Police Directorate personnel according to five-factor model of personality, attachment styles and interpersonal conflict resolution approaches. Considering the fact that studies on problematic internet usage and its effects on quality of life are usually about students and teenagers and other groups are ignored all around the world and our country, this study is considered necessary to increase efficiency and effectiveness of internal security services by the way of improving police directorate personnel's quality of life by determining whether there is problematic internet usage of police directorate personnel who use technological opportunities day by day and have a subculture, what may cause this situtation and eliminating this situation in the light of data obtained. The population of the research consists of police directorate personnel who work in İzmir Provincial Police Directorate in years of 2013 and 2014. The sample of the research consists of totally 337 police directorate personnel (10 women and 327 men) who get duties in 11 branch offices related to İzmir Provincial Police Directorate. 2 of participants are administrative officers, 311 are police officers, 6 are chief police officers, 14 are deputy inspectors and 4 are inspectors. Personal information form, Internet addiction scale, interpersonal conflict resolution approaches scale, five factor personality inventory and inventory of experiences in close relationships. In researches, relationships are examined between dimensions of extraversion, neuroticism, agreeableness, conscientiousness and openness which are subdimensions of five-factor personality characteristics and problematic Internet usage. And also, relationships are determined between anxiety and avoidance points which are subdimensions of inventory of experiences in close relationships and problematic Internet usage. Difference is detected between attachment styles with fear, obsession, avoiding and confidence and two groups who are normal and problematic Internet users. No difference is found between public-private behaviour and approach-avoidance points which are subdimensions of interpersonal conflict resolution approaches and two groups who are normal and problematic Internet users and it can be said that points given are close to each other. Significiant difference is detected between confrontation, emotional expression and self-disclosure which are other subdimensions of interpersonal conflict resolution approaches and two groups who are normal and problematic Internet users and it can be said that there are relationships between these factors and Internet usage. As a conclusion, in the study, it is examined that demografic properties, attachment styles, personal characteristics and interpersonal conflict resolution approaches are related to Internet usage. Key Words: Internet, Personality, Conflict, Attachment