Abstract:

With the advanced technology, smartphones in adolescents are one of the essential aspects of everyday life. Disadvantage to smart phones increases the risk of addiction. The pathological use of the smartphone in the size of addiction can lead to a variety of changes in the mental condition of adolescents. The aim of this study is to study the impact of psychological abuse in adolescents on smartphone addiction. The data were obtained in the research designed by the Relational Scanning Method, with the participation of 155 students who continue to study in two high schools in Diyarbakır or Chınar district. The study used the scale of smart phone addiction and the scale of psychological abuse. In the analysis of the data, the Independent Groups t test, the ANOVA, the Kruskal Wallis test and the Linear Regression Analysis were used. The findings have shown that age, the frequency of using the smartphone, the frequency of looking at the smartphone before doing a job, the frequency of thinking that life without the phone is empty and boring, the variables of neglecting daily jobs have a significant positive impact on the smartphone addiction. It has been found that the low scales of flashing-discrimination and rejection-isolation of the scale of psychological abuse have a high level of effect on smartphone addiction. The frequency of controlling the phone has been seen to have the highest levels of addiction for those who are always, those who often think that life without a smartphone is empty and boring, those who are always ignoring their daily business because of the phone and those who spend their free time on the internet. Psychological abuse has been shown to have a high level of effect on smartphone addiction in adolescents.

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