Abstract:

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of a ında Internet Addiction Prevention Psycho-Training Program in prepared with the aim of preventing internet addictions in the light of group experience and to the university students who are addicted to internet. Experimental group was occured 12 volunteer university students, and control group was occured 12 university students, same sociocultural and socioeconomic with experimental group. From beginning the Internet Addiction Prevention Psycho-Training Program, prestest was implemented experimantal and control groups. After pretest, 10 weeks Internet Addiction Prevention Psycho-Training Program was trained to experimental group. After the programme, final test was implemented both experimental and control group. In the study, the Personal Information Form prepared by the researcher and the Internet Addiction Scale, which was developed, validity and reliability studies by Günüç (2009) were used. As a result of the analysis of the data, it was seen that there was no significant difference in the pre-test scores between the experimental group and the control group. When the post-test scores applied after the 10-week Internet Addiction Prevention Psycho-Training Program were examined, it was found that the experimental group differed significantly from the control group at a significantly higher level. The findings were evaluated in the light of the literature and it was concluded that the university students who attend the university school Training of the Internet Addiction Prevention Psycho-Training Program are effective in to reduce the Internet Addiction. It has been proposed that a measurement can be performed to test the effectiveness of the program and a placebo group can be created in a new study.

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