Abstract:

With the rapid development of technology and the internet, first computers, then tablets and smartphones have begun to become an important part of the everyday life of people. In particular, the use of the Internet through these devices and its expansion has brought a number of negative consequences. One of these negative consequences is the fear of staying without a smartphone. When literature is studied, it is seen that the young people who are most afraid of being smart phone-free are young people. The aim of this study is also to reveal the levels of fear of smart phone-free youth studying at university and to measure whether there is any relationship between the fear of smart phone-free and the level of success. In this framework, the study was conducted with a survey application to bachelor students studying in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration of the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences of the University of Süleyman Demirel. According to the survey, 23.7 percent of students were slightly exposed; 59.9 percent were in the middle and 16.8 percent were excessively afraid of being without the smartphone. It has been found that women’s students have higher levels of fear of staying without a smartphone than men’s students. The analysis found that there was no connection between the levels of fear of smart phones and the levels of success. However, the study found that there was a negative and very weak relationship between the internet time and the level of success (r=0.112) of the students. In fact, the number of participants who use the Internet increases, the success rate decreases.

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