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This study aims to determine the relationship between the level of smartphone addiction and social anxiety and loneliness levels of high school students and how the levels of smartphone addiction differ according to demographic characteristics. Relational scan model was used in the research. The study’s work group consists of 284 students who continue to state schools in the Army’s Unye district center in the 2017-2018 educational year. The analysis of the data is based on the relative scan method. The data obtained from the study was analyzed with the help of the SPSS 20.0 program and after the study of the characteristics of the distribution, the frequency percentage analysis, correlation, independent T-test, one-way variance analysis (ANOVA) tests were implemented. As a result, the study found that high school students who participated in the study had a statistically meaningful relationship between the levels of smartphone addiction and social anxiety and loneliness. The fear of negative evaluation, which is the lower dimensions of smartphone addiction and social anxiety, has come to the conclusion that social avoidance and anxiety in general are a meaningful relationship in a positive direction at a low level. It has also concluded that the levels of smartphone addiction differ according to class level, the level of perceived academic success, the perceived parent attitude, and the loneliness variable. Based on the findings they have been presented.

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