Özet:

The universe of this study, which aims to examine the relationship between smartphone addiction and social anxiety of high school students, consists of students studying in public secondary education institutions in Karabağlar district of Izmir province, and its sample is 237 students determined by a simple non-selective sampling method from across the universe. Dec. The Demographic Information Form developed by the researchers and the Smartphone Addiction Scale, an adaptation study conducted by Şata et al. (2016) and the Social Anxiety Scale for Adolescents, a validity and reliability study conducted by Aydın and Tekinsav Sütcü (2007), were used as a data collection tool. Permission was obtained from the responsible authors and student parents during the data collection phase before the data collection tools were used. The obtained data were analyzed with the SPSS program. The conclusions reached based on the findings are as follows: it was concluded that the smartphone addictions of the students were at the level of “partially agree”; their social anxieties were at the level of “rarely”. There is a Decently positive relationship between students' smartphone addiction and their social anxiety. While the gender and sibling ownership variables of the students did not create a significant difference in their smartphone addiction and social anxiety levels, the results were reached that the classroom level and the time they spent with their smartphones (daily) created significant differences.

 

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