Abstract:

The internet, which is rapidly spreading and significantly affects social life, offers threats to individual and social life by its unconscious use. This is why, in recent years, unconscious and excessive use of the internet has been defined as addiction. Internet addicts have many problems, such as depression, loneliness, reduction in social interaction with society and family members. While some of the causes of internet addiction are ranked, the general point of mind is the need for socialization. The ability to establish a connection with people in their daily lives through the internet can be considered to be the factors that make the internet attractive. As the basis for individuals to be able to maintain healthy communication is to understand the emotions of others and to give the right responses, it is believed that technology addiction may also be associated with emotional intelligence. For this reason, the main objective of this study is to study the relationship between technology dependency and emotional intelligence of university students. The study used the Young Internet Addiction scale and the Emotional Intelligence scale. Emotional intelligence and internet addiction have been considered to differ or not according to age, the economic situation of the family, gender, and the state of reading in different faculties of the university. In the study, a visual scan method was used. The study was conducted with the participation of 150 university students who studied at the Faculty of Education and Faculty of Economics of the University of Kafkas. In the analysis of data, the SPSS 20 program was used. According to the results of the Mann Whitney-U and Kruskall Wallis H tests used in the analysis of the data, there was no significant difference in age, education and family economic status variables, while there was no significant difference in gender variables. It has also been found that there is a link between internet addiction and emotional intelligence and that 18.4% of emotional intelligence is linked to internet addiction.