Examining the relationship between habits of using internet and perceived social support of vocational and technical high school students

The aim of this study is to determine the habits of using internet and perceived social support of vocational and technical high school students in terms of some demographic variables and some other elements like the time met with internet, the duration of daily internet and social networks usage and to examine the relationship between them. 456 students at vocational high schools at Anatolian part of İstanbul participated to the research. In the study, "Demographic Information Form" which has been prepared by the researcher to get information about the personality traits of the research group, "Internet Usage Scale" (Ekinci, 2014) to measure habits of using internet and "Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support" (Eker, Arkar and Yaldiz, 2001) to measure perceived social support were applied. In the analyze of the data Independent samples t-test, One-way Anova, Tukey HSD, LSD, Mann Whitney-U, Kruskal Wallis tests and Pearson's correlation coefficient were applied. According to the results, internet usage habits of the students vary significantly with the variables of gender, grade, mother's education level, the duration of daily internet, social networks and online games usage, the time met with social networks and online games, the level of finding internet safe. The total perceived social support vary significantly with the variables of economic status of the family, mother's education level, father's education level, academic success, computer ownership, internet ownership, the time met with internet, the duration of daily internet, social networks and online games usage and the level of finding internet safe. A significant relationship was not found between habits of using internet and perceived social support among the students. In terms of the sub dimensions of the perceived social support; a negative significant relationship between habits of using internet and perceived social support from family was found, where any significant relationship between habits of using internet and perceived social support from a friend or other person was not found. Keywords: Habits of using internet, perceived social support, vocational and technical high school.