Abstract:

The purpose of this research is to study whether technology addiction is significantly influenced by self-respect, life satisfaction, parental attitudes and age variables. The study also discussed whether technology addiction, self-respect, life satisfaction and parent attitude variables show significant differences in terms of gender variables. The participants of this study consist of 326 young individuals aged 18-25 years (73 men, 253 women) who are living in the provinces of Istanbul, Ankara, İzmir and Antalya, a small high school graduate who agree to participate in the work on the basis of voluntariat. The data collection of the participants used the Demographic Information Form, the Life Doyum Scale, the Rosenberg Self-respect Scale, the Parental Attitude Scale and the Technology Dependency Scale. When research findings were studied, young individuals found that self-respect, life satisfaction, parent attitude, and age variables significantly influenced technology dependency. In addition, it was found that the scores that the participants received from scales did not show significant differences in terms of gender variables. In this context, prevention and intervention studies that include the organization of various training on topics such as the proper use of technology, dealing with stress, effective communication, problem solving and the risk of technology addiction that has many negative effects on both psychological and physiological young individuals can be said to be reduced. It is also believed that awareness training that will be carried out in the direction of strengthening the parent-child relationship is also of great importance for the prevention of technological addiction in young individuals.

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