The evaluation of associations between internet use and depressif symptoms and anger levels in university students

With the developments in technology, the use of the internet is also becoming widespread. With the Internet, people can quickly access the information they request, and communication through e-mail becomes possible all over the world. People's mental structures are negatively affected by excessive use of the Internet. Depression, one of these effects, is a cause and effect in internet addiction. One of the most important negative emotions observed in people is anger levels and anger expression style in line with the current social situation. Although there are people who seek solutions for the reduction and elimination of anger behavior, who believe that anger should be controlled, and who aim to overcome anger with therapies, it is thought that the feeling of anger has a very active role in daily life, contrary to popular belief. The universe of the research consists of university students in Turkey. The sample consisted of 150 volunteers who were selected randomly from the population to participate in the research. Data collection process was done through online platforms. In the data collection tools, Internet Addiction Scale developed by Young (1996) and adapted to Turkish during Bayraktar's (2001) research, Beck Depression Inventory whose Turkish validity and reliability study was conducted by Hisli (1998) and Spielberger, Jacobs, Russell and Crane in 1983. The Trait Anger and Anger Expression Style Scale, which was developed in 1999 and adapted into Turkish by Özer (1994), was used. While evaluating the findings obtained in the study, SPSS 22.0 Statistics package program was used for statistical analysis. After the relationship analysis between internet addiction, depressive symptoms and anger expression styles, which was carried out within the framework of the main purpose of the research, it was determined that there was a positive relationship between internet addiction and depressive symptoms, trait anger, anger-in and anger-out levels, and a negative relationship between anger control. It has been determined that there is a positive relationship between depressive symptoms and trait anger, anger-in and anger-out, and a negative relationship between anger control.